3C Community Profile: Humboldt Park
Take a stroll down the Paseo Boricua corridor on Division Street and it’s easy to see why Humboldt Park is one of Chicago’s most vibrant…
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For more than 100 years, The Chicago Community Trust has convened, supported, funded, and accelerated the work of community members and changemakers committed to strengthening the Chicago region. From building up our civic infrastructure to spearheading our response to the Great Recession, the Trust has brought our community together to face pressing challenges and seize our greatest opportunities. Today, that means confronting the racial and ethnic wealth gap.
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The Chicago Community Trust
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Center for Neighborhood Technology
The Center for Neighborhood Technology (CNT), along with the Metropolitan Planning Council (MPC) and technical assistance partners, are applying for funds to support the administration and implementation of Elevated Works, an Elevated Chicago program to advance publicly-funded equitable transit-oriented development (ETOD) and policy in Chicago by supporting Elevated Chicago partners in their contracts with government. These funds will contribute to project management and administration work done by CNT, the creation of an equitable transit oriented scorecard led by MPC, and the provision of technical assistance to ETODs, predominantly in neighborhoods impacted by disinvestment on Chicago’s South and West sides. These funds will supplement a $1 million contract awarded to CNT by the City of Chicago to implement the Elevated Works program.
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McKinley Park Development Council
A previous Our Great Rivers grant provided funding to develop a comprehensive plan for the riverfront parks surrounding Bubbly Creek: Canalport Riverwalk, Park 571, and Canal Origins. CDOT’s incorporation of that vision into strategic planning has now opened the possibility of an analogous framework plan aimed at expanding connectivity, strengthening linkages and broadening public access along the South Branch of the Chicago River from Daley Boat Launch on Western Ave through to Ping Tom Park in Chinatown. There will be several sub-goals to the project enhancing the public realm. Chief among them is creating connections among existing pedestrian and bike paths while fostering collaboration between private and public landholders along the riverfront in order to support and increase public access. These connected paths could touch the following 8 Sites of Interest: Daley Boat Launch, the Damen Silos, Canal Origins Park, Bubbly Creek, Park 571, the Loomis St Bridge, and 2420 S Halsted, and Lawrence Fisheries.
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NAMI Chicago
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Chicago Community Foundation
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Current Innovation NFP
This project expands and extends H2NOW Chicago, the first real-time water quality monitoring platform in a U.S. river system to measure microbial and other water quality conditions. Initiated in 2019 and launched publicly in 2021, H2NOW streams real-time water quality data for the Chicago River via an online data visualization platform available to the public at www.H2NOWChicago.org. Improving public information about water quality enables safer and more productive use of urban rivers for recreation and economic development, and better stewardship to improve the health and vitality of waterways. H2NOW Chicago began as a pilot project and launching point for deeper exploration of the role that the Chicago River plays in connecting and engaging with Chicago’s neighborhoods. It has evolved into meaningful, award-winning platform for community engagement with the Chicago River, demonstration of innovative public interest technology for water quality, and an anchor for STEM education and workforce training programs. Through a public website, www.h2nowchicago.org, H2NOW makes fluctuating conditions of the Chicago River visible and accessible to the public—like a weather app or a Fitbit. Now entering its second full season of deployment, Current proposes to continue evolving this impactful work at three existing monitoring sites in the Chicago River, and break fresh ground with a new monitoring site in the Calumet River. The core technologies, underlying water quality model, and data visualization will all be continuously improved and refined based on the findings from the previous seasons. Community outreach and policy efforts will expand to build more informed and engaged users of the H2NOW data and build momentum for expanded continuous water quality monitoring in the Chicago region’s waterways. Community engagement efforts in 2023 will expand through the addition of Current’s new Mobile STEM Lab, allowing our team to bring the river to the neighborhoods and sampling and data demos to sites of existing community activity.
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Illinois Collaboration On Youth
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OBSIDIAN COLLECTION ARCHIVES
The Obsidian Collection Archives creates access to factual accounts of Black life curated from an infinite collection of personal, institutional and Black legacy press archives. We are essentially a tech-nonprofit organization creating modern-day solutions for Black journalism. If the Chicago Community Trust grants us this additional funding, we will be able to continue telling meaningful stories, preserving important Black history and bring true assistance to Black media. For example, few people know that Bronzeville had more economic wealth than Harlem during its Renaissance. The April 1938 issue of Time Magazine noted that Bronzeville had over $100,000 per capita than the residents of Harlem, NY. Telling the factual stories of the SUCCESSES of Black Chicago will help the future generations understand the steps and directions towards increase Black wealth in Chicago.