By LISC, Chicago’s New Communities Program What a neighborhood can be is largely a function of…
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Despite Relative Wealth of Neighborhood, Lakeview Group Says Free Health Clinic is Needed by Many Residents
One Lakeview neighborhood organization hopes to open a free health care clinic in the North…
“Blood Alley” Still a Problem in Uptown
Police and business owners in Uptown recently joined forces to develop a strategy to clean…
Lakeview Residents Say Efforts to “Take Back the Streets” Are Working
Over 100 Lakeview residents — fed up with crime on their turf — have united…
Experiment in Democracy: 49th Ward Leads the Way in Participatory Budgeting
Community gardens. Buying the Leone Beach house. Security cameras on the “L” platforms. Those were…
Neighborhood Groups Rally for Seniors and Food Bank in Edgewater
On one recent cold morning in Edgewater, seniors lined up outside of the neighborhood’s only…
Eye-Opening Seminar Exposes North Side Gangbanging
By Lorraine Swanson, Editor, Lake Effect News In a packed auditorium at Swedish Covenant Hospital,…
Uptown Celebrates Winthrop Avenue Pioneers, Remembers the Segregation They Faced
By Lorraine Swanson, editor, Lake Effect News For the generations of McKeevers, Browns, Clarks, Jenkins,…