Experts: Chicago Needs Collaboration, Neighborhood Investment
ICPR’s event “Inspiring Investment in Chicago Neighborhoods” was featured in this article.
Via – Columbia Chronicle
“While Chicago is still in the running for Amazon’s second headquarters, economic development advocates and politicians agree that more investments are needed in local neighborhoods for the city to thrive.
At a Jan. 17 panel titled Inspiring Investment in Chicago Neighborhoods, hosted by the Illinois Campaign for Political Reform, experts in economic development discussed ways to spur economic growth in Chicago neighborhoods. The forum, held at 600 S. Michigan Ave., was moderated by Kristin Barrett, a senior director for the University of Chicago Polsky Exchange, a startup hub.
Evelyn Diaz—president of Heartland Alliance, a Chicago-based anti-poverty organization—said disinvestment in low-income neighborhoods has had devastating effects over time. The most tragic of these effects has been “an insidious cycle of poverty, violence and trauma,” she said. ”
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