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Jonathan Dale

Illustration: Shane Tolentino
Posted inHousing

The Community Engagement Challenge of Invest South/West

by Jonathan Dale July 22, 2021July 22, 2021

n a lively and contentious Auburn Gresham virtual town hall meeting on June 8, the Department of Planning and Development (DPD) ran an exercise to make a map. The exercise was to gauge community-backed uses for 838 W. 79th St., a vacant City-owned lot located a block west of Halsted on 79th and Green St., […]

Renderings of the “Always Growing, Auburn Gresham” Chicago Prize-winning plan. Courtesy Greater Auburn-Gresham Development Corporation.
Posted inAuburn Gresham

With the Competition for the Chicago Prize Behind Them, South and West Side Community Organizations Keep Doing the Work

by Jonathan Dale December 11, 2020July 23, 2021
Posted inDevelopment

What Does Reinvestment Look Like? The promise and caution surrounding the city’s Invest South/West

by Jonathan Dale July 22, 2020July 31, 2020

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