Click the Link https://form.jotform.com/90996287425169 HOME OWNERS and RENTERS in the CHICAGO AREA !!! IN THE COMING WEEK, the Application process will begin to apply for available Grants to assist you during these trying times of COVID-19. Do Not Wait – REGISTER NOW BE PREPARED TO APPLY Join AGORA on a HOUSING OUTREACH EVENT on… Continue Reading
The COVID-19 testing site in Chicago’s Auburn Gresham neighborhood has moved to a new location at Foreman Mills, located at 79th Street and the Dan Ryan Expressway, due to the previous site’s hosts reopening for business. State Senator Jacqueline Collins (D-Chicago) praised the governor’s administration for working quickly to ensure that the South Side and Auburn Gresham… Continue Reading
Over 150 families on Chicago’s Westside Austin community, who have a family member that has been recently released from Cook County Jail or are impacted economically by the pandemic, lined up early at ZOE Life Ministries International, 1 S. Laramie on Saturday, June 27, 2020. Participants obtained “FREE” COVID-19 testing from the Howard Brown Clinic, applied for rental or utility assistance, and
obtained a free credit report, analysis and onsite counseling on talking with creditors and landlords when rent is delayed, from the Oak Park Regional Housing Center’s West Cook program. Continue Reading
On “Monday, May 4th, 2020”, community advocates with “Get Cleared, Illinois”, a re-entry project of the Monroe Foundation, joined with Reverend Walter Jones, executive director of Fathers Who Care -Westside Community Stakeholders along with officers 15th District CPD Officers Cynthia Miura, Marie Freson and Malcolm Brooks. Continue Reading
New Free Coronavirus Testing Site serving the Auburn Gresham/Chatham Area – Studio Movie Grill (210 W. 87th Street) 8am to 4pm 7 days a week Continue Reading
AN ONLINE RESOURCE HUB FOR THE FORMERLY INCARCERATED AND THEIR FAMILIES! “FREE” COVID-19SPREAD PREVENTION SUPPLIES (MASK, SANITIZERS, FOOD GIFT CARDS) WHILE SUPPLIES LAST Continue Reading
The Black Star Project is honored to be one of two non-profit organizations to receive funding support from the Camelot Illinois Grant Program to benefit local communities. The Black Star Project will utilize the grant funding to support the purchase of state-of-the-art computers and educational software for students in its Kimberly Lightford Saturday University (KLSU).… Continue Reading
The Project, an Access 2 Justice outreach led by the Monroe Foundation, urges the formerly incarcerated to make sure their households participate in the 2020 Cook County Census, reminding them that they “Count Too!”. Continue Reading
On Saturday. March 14th, over 25 residents of the Villages of Maywood and Bellwood in Proviso Township, attended a “Count Us In” Proviso 2020 Cook County Census Info Session, facilitated by the Monroe Foundation and the West Cook Homeownership Center. Continue Reading
On Friday, February 21st, 46 individuals of diverse ages, ethnicities, and past convictions,
were interviewed and assessed for sealing and expungement and “relief” options at an
“Access 2 Justice” Pre-Rap Sheet Day held at the offices of the National Black Wall Street –
Chicago, led by Mark Allen and Say “Yes” To Life, headed by J. Minor Allen. Continue Reading