Press

In the Media

• Block Club Chicago: "Healthy Restaurant Coming To MLK Legacy Apartments In North Lawndale To Boost 16th Street Business District" (7/30/2021)
• Chicago Tribune: "Chicago street vendors first banded together to rent commercial kitchen space — then they bought the building" (6/24/2021)
• WGN-TV: "Roseland woman helping community advance love of literacy" (03/16/2021)
• Block Club Chicago: "'Art Can Change Your Life’: A Gallery With Studios, Lessons And Shows Coming To West Side" (02/12/2020)
• Block Club Chicago: "NOF Grantee Moreno’s Liquors Family Opens Osito’s Tap Speakeasy, First New Little Village Bar In Decades" (11/22/2019)
• Block Club Chicago: "Garfield Park Art Gallery Is Expanding With Help From City’s Neighborhood Opportunity Fund" (8/2/2019)
• Curbed Chicago: "Chicago’s small business fund should be a model for other cities, study says" (7/19/2019)
• Urban Institute: "Building Community and Wealth in Underserved Commercial Corridors" (7/18/2019)
• WBEZ: "Study: Chicago Fund Creating Opportunities On City’s South And West Sides" (7/18/2019)
• Austin Talks: "Six Austin businesses receive grants through Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Austin Talks" (7/16/2019)
• Chicago Tribune: "‘All the resources were in downtown’: Chicago’s Latino entrepreneurs struggle to find help, but business groups are stepping up" (7/8/2019)
• Chicago Tribune: "NOF Grantees on the South Side: Where Coffee and Community Meet" (6/24/2019)
• Chicago Crusader: "NOF Grantee Kehrein Center for the Arts Opens in Austin" (6/5/2019)
• Curbed Chicago: "City grants allow South and West side neighborhoods to grow busy corridors" (4/30/2019)
• Crain's Chicago Business: "City fund from developer payments makes $25 million in grants" (4/30/2019)
• Chicago Sun-Times: "Emanuel makes final round of neighborhood grants from share-the-wealth fund" (4/29/2019)
• Block Club Chicago: "NOF Grantee Sip & Savor Cafe Opens In Historic Bronzeville Apartment Complex" (1/28/2019)
• Lawndale News: "Neighborhood Funds to Invest in Businesses Across Chicago" (8/2/2018)
• Chicago Sun-Times: "Neighborhood jump-start grants reward 34 South, West Side small business owners" (7/31/2018)
• The Architect's Newspaper: "Chicago sets aside $6 million in developer funding to help South Side businesses" (5/16/2018)
• Next City: "Chicago Directs $3.2M to Neighborhoods, Thanks to Developer Fees" (6/12/2017)

Press Releases

• Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Applications to Reopen in March 2021 (2/26/21)
• Mayor Lightfoot and the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) Announce Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Finalists (1/22/21)
• Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant Will Support HQ for North Lawndale Employment Network (11/23/20)
• Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant Approved for Little Village Incubator (9/9/2020)
• Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant Approved for West Englewood Grocery Store (6/17/2020)
• Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant Will Support Adaptive Re-Use of Garfield Park Warehouse (11/20/2019)
• An Additional $6.4 Million in Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grants Proposed for Local Businesses and Organizations (3/13/2019)
• Mayor Emanuel Announces $25 Million In Latest Round Of Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant Awards (4/29/2019)
• An Additional $6.4 Million in Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grants Proposed for Local Businesses and Organizations (3/19/2019)
• Mayor Emanuel Announces $8.8 Million In Latest Round Of Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Grant Awards (8/27/2018)
• Mayor Emanuel Announces Applications To Open This Week For Second Round Of Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Investments (10/2/2017)
• Mayor Emanuel Introduces New Downtown Bonus System To Generate Funds For Neighborhood Commercial Development Projects (4/13/2016)

Contact

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