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

n August, the Pritzker Traubert Foundation’s inaugural Chicago Prize awarded $10 million to an Auburn Gresham community development project. The Prize competition, seeking to fund a project “using physical development to spur economic activity,” was a citywide spectacle, as the judges whittled down an initial eighty entrants to six finalists before choosing the sole winner. […]