Chicago, IL
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| 1 N. LaSalle Street 12th Floor Chicago, Illinois 60602 Telephone: (312) 360-0800 Fax: (312) 360-0183 Website |
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Established in 1979
Achievements by the Numbers:
(LISC and Affiliates)- 28,399 homes and apartments
- 3.6 million square feet of commercial space
- $618.7 million total investment
- $3.5 billion leveraged
- Learn more at: www.lisc.org/chicago
Profile:
The mission of LISC/Chicago is to organize capital and other resources to support initiatives that will stimulate the comprehensive development of healthy, stable neighborhoods and foster their connection to the socioeconomic mainstream of the metropolitan region. To promote this mission, LISC/Chicago:
- Provides technical expertise, information and training in the field of community development
- Promotes policies, networks, relationships and resources that enhance neighborhood development
- Invests high-risk capital in a comprehensive program of neighborhood development, including but not limited to housing, commercial and industrial development, community facilities, open space, education and employment
- Invests in community development organizations, neighborhood institutions, public agencies and private sector companies in Cook County, while taking advantage of opportunities as they arise throughout the entire six-county metropolitan area
- Creates measurement instruments by which to assess the heath and stability of the invested neighborhoods and to gauge the effectiveness of the investments
- Enhances our reputation as the intermediary of choice for corporations, foundations and other funders committed to neighborhood revitalization in order to maintain a sound and growing capital base