Cedar Street converting old Loop office tower to apartments; state must track food deserts

What’s new this week?

• attendance boundaries in Chicago were updated for the current school year — search for an address to see what the neighborhood school is
• our map of the Cook County Land Bank Authority-owned properties is now updated daily and you can filter it by property type, Place, and whether the CCLBA owns it or owns the tax certificate
• we brought the Leads Generator back

Neighborhood news

• The Neighborhood Opportunity Fund is back for round 2 for small business owners on eligible blocks to get grants (closes 12/22/17)
• Great Recession saw higher foreclosure rates in Latino neighborhoods than the city’s overall rate (new report from UIC)

• An 1925 office building above Miller’s Pub in the Loop is being converted to 176 apartments by Cedar Street (Curbed)
• South Side Weekly has a deep interview with architecture critic, journalist, and now DuSable Museum vice president Lee Bey (Lee also has a show at the museum called Southern Exposure, through February 16, 2018)
• An update on Illinois House Rep. Sonya Harper’s (map) proposed bill to create “Urban Agriculture Zones” (South Side Weekly)
• Harper’s bill requiring the State of Illinois to track food deserts passed last month (WBEZ)
• Alder George Cardenas (12th Ward) throws the Central Manufacturing District site (map) in McKinley Park into the ring for Amazon’s future “HQ2” (DNAinfo)

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