This week’s neighborhood news — Dec. 22

Terrace 459 at 459 W Division Street in the Near North Side community area, part of the Parkside at Old Town redevelopment of Cabrini Green, for which Landon Bone Baker won an award. Photo by David Schalliol.

• ComEd is building an electricity microgrid in Bronzeville; IIT already has one and is collaborating (Midwest Energy News)
• “Farm on Ogden” will train locals to be urban farmers and sell produce in a healthy corner store in North Lawndale (Chicago Tribune)
• Chicago Housing Authority will build 630 public housing units to replace those lost in Lathrop Homes redevelopment (DNAinfo)
• Landon Bone Baker wins Architect Magazine’s award for affordable housing design for “Terrace 459” in Cabrini Green (Architect)
• Woodlawn has gained population since 2010; this includes “young black families” and University of Chicago students (DNAinfo)
• West Loop residents have asked that former Coyne College site become a library (Bisnow) but owner Sterling Bay has other plans (Curbed)
• Some alders think Progressive Caucus’s “back to basics” plan for TIF districts may prevent some needed projects (CBS)
• Cook County Clerk David Orr has his own suggestions for what the “back to basics” TIF ordinance should include (read the ordinance)

Our TIF districts maps have been updated with the current boundaries and new TIF districts, as of December 16. Expired and dissolved TIF districts have been removed but we have a copy of these for our members who need these for analysis.

We’ve also added a map for the first transit TIF district, property tax revenues (over the current value) from which will go to Chicago Public Schools at their normal proportion, and then to pay for the CTA’s Red and Purple Lines modernization project.