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Your Neighborhood: Auburn Gresham | Community Reporting Series
Chicago Tonight - Nick Blumberg | Brandis Friedman | July 2, 2020 8:49 pm, Jul 2, 2020

Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood is a majority Black, working-class community that at the beginning of the pandemic was considered a hot spot for cases of COVID-19; the neighborhood saw the first coronavirus death in Illinois.

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To foster and promote revitalization of the community by designing and implementing programs that improve the community’s economic viability; increase availability of quality housing to people of different income levels, while maintaining and improving existing affordable housing; and enhance delivery of social services, particularly to senior citizens.

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