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Chicago stats today
Thu, Dec. 12th, 2019

222 building permits posted
8 new construction permits posted
249 building violations posted
182 violation hearings to be held

Latest blog post Thursday, November 14, 2019

Two South Side community hubs are moving forward with investment from Benefit Chicago
by Steven Vance

The fund is supported in large part by the MacArthur foundation, but anyone can make a small or large investment

Benefit Chicago is a local social impact investment fund launched in May 2016. Whet Moser wrote for Chicago magazine at the time: “[Benefit Chicago is] a community-investment vehicle that, on one side, loans money at low interest rates to people and projects that have trouble getting it from other types of financial institutions, and on the other, returns money to investors.”

The fund is operated by Calvert Impact Capital (which operates other funds), was seeded by MacArthur Foundation, and is advised by the Chicago Community Trust (among other organizations).

For as little as $20, anyone can invest their money...

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The Greater Chicago Food Depository has purchased the land adjacent to its food bank and will build a 40,000 s.f. kitchen to prepare 15,000 or more meals per day.
Hancock College Prep’s three-story replacement school will house typical classrooms as well as additional specialty spaces. The school will have a gymnasium with stage, a dedicated black box theater, and multipurpose rooms to support CTE, STEM and STEAM programming. The campus will feature a landscaped plaza area and parking lot.
A revised version of the proposal for a new all-affordable apartment building from The Resurrection Project. There would be 7 fewer units (45 to 37) and more of them would be 3-bedroom units. Also in this proposal would be cheaper units for even lower-income families, contingent on CHA partnership.
Sterling Bay has proposed an 18-story office building.

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New construction permits pulled in Chicago in the last 2 months since Saturday, October 12th, 2019

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