Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation
Auburn Gresham’s Healthy Lifestyle Hub Hosts Small Business Pop-Up For Black History Month
This Friday, neighbors can buy colorful earrings from Octavia Barnes Paparazzi Jewelry, give in to their sweet tooth with cupcakes from Krazy Kake House or get an early Valentine’s Day gift from Felicia Gifts and Baskets.
Auburn Gresham’s Healthy Lifestyle Hub Brings Resources Back To The South Side: ‘We Can Make Great Things Happen’
As live music played, families and friends explored the four-story lifestyle hub for the first time. “I want people to tell their kids and grandkids about this," a community leader said.
Auburn Gresham’s Healthy Lifestyle Hub To Celebrate Grand Opening Friday — And Everyone Is Invited
Friday’s event will be an open house celebration where neighbors can roam the four floors of the hub with music and food.
‘Miracle On 79th Street’: Auburn Gresham’s Healthy Hub Opens, Bringing Restaurants, A Clinic, Bank, And More To The South Side
The Healthy Lifestyle Hub will transform a building that sat vacant for more than two decades into a prime destination for neighbors, beginning a “new chapter in this neighborhood’s history,” officials said.
79th Street Renaissance Festival Is Coming Back — With Slick Rick And Doug E. Fresh Set To Perform
This year's free festival will feature live performances alongside food, carnival rides and a petting zoo.
Auburn Gresham’s Healthy Lifestyle Hub With Restaurants, Bank, Pharmacy And More Will Open This Fall After Delays
The debut of the healthy hub, once set for the summer, will now happen this fall with two celebrations for city officials and neighbors, organizers said.
Auburn Gresham’s Healthy Lifestyle Hub Will Open This Month On 79th Street, Bringing New Life To A Long-Vacant Building
The hub will bring a pharmacy, doctor's office, bank, restaurant and a Chicago Bears-backed teaching kitchen to the South Side community, which has been devastated by closures and vacant storefronts.
Auburn Park, A $35 Million Metra Station, Is Moving Forward: ‘Auburn Gresham Is On The Move’
The Auburn Park Metra station will run along the Rock Island Line. Construction is expected to wrap in 2024.
TikTok Historian Shermann ‘Dilla’ Thomas Is Fundraising To Buy A Bus For His South Side Neighborhood Tours
If Thomas can raise $200,000 to buy a Chicago Mahogany Tours bus, he'll be able to lower ticket prices for community members and offer more free trips.
Pritzker Traubert Foundation’s Next $10 Million Chicago Prize For Entrepreneurs Opening Applications In February
South and West side entrepreneurs can apply beginning Feb. 15 for the chance to win $10 million to bring their community projects to life.
A New Housing Complex Could Be Coming To Auburn Gresham. Here’s How To Weigh In With Feedback
The $20 million development, part of the city's INVEST South/West program, would bring 56 units of affordable housing to 79th Street.
Free Coronavirus Tests Available At Washington Heights Jewel-Osco Thursday
No identification is required but people are urged to pre-register.
Auburn Gresham Food Drive Offering Free Groceries And Pet Food To Neighbors Tuesday
Pets and their human companions can pick up meals Tuesday morning while supplies last.
Healthy Living Hub Is Centerpiece Of Big Plans For Auburn Gresham: ‘In 5 To 10 Years … You’ll See The Vibrancy’
The hub is one part of a plan that won the $10 million Chicago Prize from the Pritzker Traubert Foundation in early August.
City Asks Developers For Plans To Expand Englewood Square And 79th Street Corridor
A landmarked firehouse at 6204 S. Green St. is part of the area the city wants to redevelop.
$32 Million Auburn Gresham Urban Farm Coming To Life After State Grants Last $2 Million To Project
Gov. Pritzker's announcement comes one day after the Pritzker Traubert Foundation granted $10 million to the project.
Auburn Gresham Project Wins $10 Million Prize From Charitable Foundation
The Pritzker Traubert Foundation’s Chicago Prize will help bring a $50 million campus with a health center, urban farm and affordable housing to life.
Get Free Food Boxes Every Tuesday In Auburn Gresham
Families in need can pick up a box of food every Tuesday in the parking lot of the now-closed Save-A-Lot through mid-June.
Auburn Gresham Elementary Principals Band Together To Raise Literacy Levels
The Greater Auburn Gresham Development Corporation and United Way of Metro Chicago are working to transform the lives of neighborhood students, families through new Auburn Gresham GOLD initiative.
