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Client Profile: Advocating for Humboldt Park is Juan Manuel Calderon’s Life Work

Jul 17, 2023

If life is a tapestry of experience, the threads of Juan M. Calderon’s existence are inextricably woven with Humboldt Park — and by extension, the Puerto Rican Cultural Center (PRCC).  Calderon, born to a Puerto Rican father and a Mexican mother, also identifies as...

Chicago Tribune: As development comes to South Shore, gentrification is focus of group aiming to safeguard residents

Jun 18, 2023

Near the corner of 71st Street and Crandon Avenue, Michael McDowell mans the flat top at Surf’s Up South Shore as he has nearly every day since 2014. McDowell, who took over the Southern seafood and wing shop franchise from his stepmother, has seen South Shore’s ups...

Client Profile: Cecile De Mello never stops searching for solutions to revitalize Englewood

May 1, 2023

Cecile De Mello likes to ask questions. So much, in fact, that she once considered doing so professionally. “When I was in high school,” she says, “I wanted to be a journalist. I was very inquisitive about the way my community was set up.” De Mello was living in...
Client Profile: Tonya Trice is hopeful – and tenacious – about bringing economic development to South Shore

Client Profile: Tonya Trice is hopeful – and tenacious – about bringing economic development to South Shore

Mar 21, 2023

About a decade ago, Tonya Trice and her husband were talking about the future of their neighborhood. South Shore is coming back, he told her. He was sure of it. He was certain that the South Side neighborhood, home to a stunning stretch of lakefront and a large Black...

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  • Chicago Tribune: As development comes to South Shore, gentrification is focus of group aiming to safeguard residents
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