The city is set to launch several development projects in North Lawndale, but a coalition of community groups says that's not enough
Richard Townsell, executive director of the Lawndale Christian Development Corp., outside the Dr. King Legacy Apartments in the Lawndale neighborhood of Chicago on April 25, 2022. The apartments are a new affordable housing development in the community.
North Lawndale was once the home of Sears, which ran its national mail order business out of a 55-acre complex that stretched across the neighborhood, a beehive of activity that provided thousands of jobs. Sears headed downtown in the 1970s, and other manufacturing giants such as International Harvester and Western Electric also left. Unemployment soared in the ensuing decades, leading to population decline and a deteriorated housing stock.
“The most basic rule of economic development is you have to have dollars circulating in your community,” she said. “North Lawndale residents have to leave the neighborhood for almost everything because almost every category of goods and services is not available.” The Soul Food Lounge is on the ground floor of the Dr. King Legacy Apartments in Chicago, April 25, 2022.
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