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Trolley Tour Highlights Chicago’s Housing Woes On The Northwest Side
- Natalie Moore, Aug 1, 2019
Affordable housing advocates from LUCHA, Spanish Coalition for Housing, Center for Changing Lives, Northwest Side Housing Center, Bickerdike Redevelopment Corporation and Logan Square Neighborhood Association organized the Tuesday trolley trip.
Organizers wanted to...
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As Logan Square & Humboldt Park Property Taxes Skyrocket, Both Longtime And New Residents Consider Moving
- MINA BLOOM/BLOCK CLUB CHICAGO, Jul 31, 2019
"We lost our neighborhood school, the streets are riddled with potholes and there's gunshots. What are we paying for?" one resident said.
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‘A stranger in my own community’: Mixed feelings as young Latinos move back to gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods
- BIANCA SANCHEZ | CHICAGO TRIBUNE |, Jul 2, 2019
“We have to ask ourselves when we are getting public amenities in our community, who is going to benefit and who is going to be burdened,” Christian Diaz, the lead housing organizer at the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, said....
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LSNA Welcomes New Round of Parent Mentors
- Posted by Editor, Jun 13, 2019
"Hundreds of new parents graduated on Thursday, June 6th from the Logan Square Neighborhood Association Parent Teacher Mentor Program at Carl Schurz High School. “After demonstrating the dedication and love that the parent mentors put into helping each student..."
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Parent mentors celebrate graduation, program expansion: ‘Each day I know I accomplish something’
- ADESHINA EMMANUEL, Jun 7, 2019
“I always wanted to do something that just made me proud, I wanted to leave at the end of the day knowing that I accomplished something, Each day being a parent mentor I know I’m accomplishing something, because I see it in the smiles of my students and my co-workers.”
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57 Years at LSNA
- May 29, 2019
Thank you to all who joined us at our 57th Annual Congress on May 21, 2019! It was wonderful to celebrate our accomplishments from the past year and look forward to a better future!
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Hundreds Of Logan Square Residents Show Up To Fight For 100% Affordable Housing Complex As Opponents Try To Slow Down Process
- Mina Bloom, Apr 25, 2019
Of the roughly 500 residents who attended, 350 voted "yes," 112 voted "no," 35 voted "yes, with conditions" and five votes were indecipherable.
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Prior to Tonight’s Logan TOD Hearing, Supporters Make Their Final Case
- Lynda Lopez, Apr 24, 2019
"On the morning before tonight’s community input meeting for the proposed 100-unit, 100-percent affordable transit-oriented development for the Emmett Street parking lot next to the Logan Square Blue Line station, advocates held a press conference to...
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As Logan Housing Costs Skyrocket, New 100 Percent Affordable Housing Complex ‘Extremely Important’ Step In Right Direction, Ald. Says
- Mina Bloom, Apr 3, 2019
“I’ve been trying to get this done since 2016 and the Mayor’s office hasn’t helped until now,” the alderman said, adding, “The mayor wants to see this done during the final month of his administration. … as part of his legacy.”
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LSNA's Aldermanic Questionnaire- Run-Off Edition
- LSNA, Mar 20, 2019
On Tuesday, March 19, 2019, LSNA hosted a conversation between runoff candidates for the 30th, 31st, 33rd ward, and community members. We'd like to thank the candidates including Deb Mell, Felix Cardona Jr., Rossana Rodriguez, and Jessica Gutierrez for attending.
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Chicago’s Lincoln Yards Puts Affordable Housing Groups In A Bind
- Linda Lutton, Mar 19, 2019
Lincoln Yards is a planned $6 billion megaproject — featuring skyscrapers, corporate headquarters, and thousands of units of upscale housing — to be sandwiched between Lincoln Park and Bucktown.
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LSNA's Aldermanic Candidate Forum Recap and Questionnaire Answers
- LSNA, Feb 13, 2019
Did you miss LSNA's aldermanic forum last Friday, February 8th, 2019? See our answers to our communities' questions here- including responses from the 1st, 26th, 31st, 33rd, and 35th Ward.
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Candidates Promise to Vote No on Mega TIF Bonds at LSNA Aldermanic Forum
- Sam González Kelly, LoganSquarist Staff Writer, Feb 11, 2019
Residents of Logan Square, Avondale, Hermosa, and Lathrop packed the auditorium at McAuliffe Elementary (1841 N. Springfield Ave.) Feb. 8 to hear aldermanic candidates speak about the Logan Square Neighborhood Association’s Quality of Life plan, released in December 2018.
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Housing organizations OK to sue Cook Assessor over ex-assessor's 'discriminatory' practices
- By Jonathan Bilyk, Feb 8, 2019
On Feb. 7, Cook County Circuit Judge Celia Gamrath rejected the county’s attempt to pull the plug on the legal action brought by the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Logan Square Neighborhood Association and South Suburban Housing Center.
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Housing organizations OK to sue Cook Assessor over ex-assessor's 'discriminatory' practices
- Jonathan Bilyk, Feb 8, 2019
From Cook County Record: Housing assistance organizations have won the right to continue, for now, with a lawsuit against the Cook County Assessor’s office for past property tax assessment practices they claim discriminated against black and Hispanic homeowners, particularly in Chicago.
On Feb. 7, Cook County Circuit Judge Celia Gamrath rejected the county’s attempt to pull the plug on the legal action brought by the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Logan Square Neighborhood Association and South Suburban Housing Center.
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How to win over Northwest Side voters: Chicago aldermen candidates hone in on high school plans
- Cassie Walker Burke / Chalkbeat Chicago, Feb 8, 2019
Photo Credit: Cassie Walker Burke / Chalkbeat Chicago
Organized by the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, Friday’s event brought together candidates from six of the city’s most competitive aldermanic races. Thirteen candidates filled the stage, including some incumbents, such as Aldermen Proco “Joe” Moreno (1st Ward), Carlos Ramirez-Rosa (35th Ward), and Milly Santiago (31st Ward).
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StoryCorps Chicago: ‘Gentrification Is Colonization’
- Bill Healy, StoryCorps Chicago, WBEZ, Feb 1, 2019
Ashley Galvan Ramos is an anti-gentrification activist in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood, where she grew up.
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Five Mayoral Hopefuls Commit to Ambitious Progressive Agenda at Forum
- Aaron Cynic, Jan 17, 2019
“We want the next mayor of Chicago to know we’ve had enough of the devastation in our communities,” said Ashley Galvan Ramos of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, who helped open the event by leading a ‘mic check.’
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Chicago Neighborhoods Front And Center At Forum For Mayoral Candidates
- Linda Lutton, Jan 13, 2019
“We are here to send a message to the candidates that our communities..."
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Activistas presentan plan para frenar el desplazamiento urbano en el vecindario de Hermosa, en Chicago
- Univision, Dec 14, 2018
"Organizaciones comunitarias han diseñado un plan para evitar que en un futuro cercano cientos de latinos sean víctimas del..."
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As Gentrification Moves West, Hermosa And Logan Square Leaders Launch Plan To Fight Displacement
- Mina Bloom, Dec 13, 2018
"Logan Square Neighborhood Association partnered with Local Initiatives Support Corporation, or LISC, on the 56-page plan, which doubles as a report on the state..."
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Mayoral forum recap: all the answers, none ...
- Maya Dukmasova, Dec 11, 2018
At back-to-back forums last week 11 candidates fielded questions and even provided some answers.
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Plan unveiled to reconfigure Logan Square traffic circle
- Karen Jordan, Dec 4, 2018
"Bicyclist Juan Sebastian Arias, who lives in Logan Square and bikes to work in the Loop, supports bike safety. He is also a member of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, which has raised concerns that an unintended consequence of improving the traffic circle could be ..."
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How Chicago Is Making its Own Affordable Housing Crisis Worse
- Shelli Nicole, Nov 27, 2018
Logan Square residents and supporters march for racial equity and affordable housing in the rapidly gentrifying north side neighborhood of Logan Square in Chicago on October 23, 2018.
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Chicago Has A Plan To Build Near CTA Trains. But Who Does It Help?
- Natalie Moore, Odette Yousef, Nov 26, 2018
Christian Diaz of the Logan Square Neighborhood Association stands in the Emmet Street parking lot, a city-owned lot where housing advocates envision an affordable TOD development for working-class Latino families that might otherwise be priced out of the rapidly...