With Bickerdike serving as the lead agency and representation from a wide variety of organizations serving the Humboldt Park community, the Humboldt Park New Communities Program (NCP) Task Force meets quarterly to discuss and work on issues affecting the community.

Some would argue that elected and appointed government officials don’t attend community-based events unless it is in response to a tragic event involving media presence. However, on March 25th, 2014, police commanders (14th, 12th, and 11th district), city alderman (1st, 26th, 27th wards), and CPS officials all proactively met, without the presence of the media, […]

Blog and blogging are relatively new terms in our lexicon. It wasn’t until 1997 that the original term, weblog was coined, and 1999 when it was shortened to blog. In its early years, the term had negative connotations. Back then, the term blogger conjured up an image of someone sitting in their basement in front […]