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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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  • Grant Recipient

    Duo Development

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $650,000

    We request that you please begin by reviewing the attachment titled “Starling – Project and Concept Plan_WRT.pdf” in the attachments. This document has an overview of everything that is outlined in this application. Starling, located at 1600 S Sawyer Avenue in North Lawndale, just a few blocks away from Douglass Park, is a beautiful new state-of-the-art construction project that will break ground in Spring 2024 and open to the public before October of 2024. This building will feature a café service by award winning coffee company, Monday Coffee Co., and offer flexible areas for residents and organizations to lease on a short-term, flexible basis. Residents and guests will be able to enjoy the building free of charge and without having to purchase coffee. Occupying 2,500 square feet of the 6,000 square-foot site, Starling will provide spaces and programming for residents to gather, replenish, learn, and create. Starling is an initiative to preserve and improve the built environment and a space for art and culture, economic development and workforce development, transportation, infrastructure & technology​, and green & open space. Most importantly, Starling will be a space for liberation – it will breathe new life to a commercial corridor, celebrate local culture, and uplift over 30,000 neighbors each year.​ As a development project, Starling will set a new precedent for ethical practices in the real estate industry. Most notably, the building will share profits with neighbors and foster collective ownership. What also sets Starling apart is its genuine commitment to community engagement. Over the past six years, the project has actively sought and incorporated input from more than 350 residents, ensuring that their voices and perspectives shape the project's vision. Additionally, the development team reviewed insights from over 30 secondary sources about the North Lawndale area to inform their decision-making. Starling is a community collaboration led by our team, Duo (a 501c3 non-profit organization in Illinois), and we’ve partnered with Canopy Architecture, McKay Landscape Architects, and will feature Monday Coffee Co​. With an estimated cost of $1.7M, Starling has already received awards from the Chicago Community Trust​, City of Chicago Neighborhood Opportunity Fund​, City of Chicago Equitable Transit-Oriented Development (ETOD).

  • Grant Recipient

    Chicago Neighborhood Initiatives Inc

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $1,000,000

    The Pullman Hotel Group, LLC (PHG) is planning to develop a Hampton Inn by Hilton near 111th Street and Doty Avenue, providing high-quality lodging for this burgeoning tourism area of our city. The project will bring the first nationally branded hotel to Chicago’s Historic Pullman community. In addition to providing 105 much-needed hotel rooms to an area of Chicago bereft of viable lodging options, the Pullman Hotel Project will bring much-needed jobs and community pride to area residents, while furthering the economic development momentum growing in the area. Positioned less than one mile from a recently developed regional mall, new restaurants, and other retail businesses, the hotel site is directly adjacent to the Pullman Park Industrial Park, a rapidly developing home to a number of recently developed warehousing and distribution facilities including a regional distribution center for Whole Foods, a regional hub facility for Amazon, operations for SC Johnson, Method, and Gotham Greens.

  • Grant Recipient

    World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $40,000

  • Grant Recipient

    Invisible to Invincible

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $500

  • Grant Recipient

    World Relief Corp of National Association of Evangelicals

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $42,350

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    ARAB AMERICAN FAMILY SERVICES

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $35,000

  • Grant Recipient

    NORTH SUBURBAN LEGAL AID CLINIC

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $31,075

  • Grant Recipient

    RESPOND NOW

    Awarded: Awarded Amount: $35,000