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A organized community is an strong community
Last week, President Trump announced plans for mass ICE raids aimed at cities including Chicago.On a day's notice, more than 100 volunteers moved into action to help keep our community safe. 33rd Ward Working Families members and allies knocked on thousands of doors across Albany Park to talk to ...
Read More Dec 8, 2025
The Case for Abolishing the Tax Increment Financing (TIF) Program
In October 2019, nine striking CTU members were arrested for blocking the entrance to the Sterling Bay offices, the developers who are on track to receive $1.3 billion in Tax Increment Financing dollars to construct 6,000 homes at the future Lincoln Yards development. Lincoln Yards will create a ...
Read More Dec 8, 2025
Pobre País / This Poor Country
[In English below]A ver - dejemos en claro que una sociedad amedrentada y un entorno de miedo son realidades y contextos horrendos que nadie quiere. ¿Sí? Dale. Estamos todos de acuerdo. Califico entonces, a los que propician dicho entorno, como terroristas. Justamente porque hicieron palpable ese...
Read More Nov 24, 2025
City Council: Invest in our CARE!
08/12/2025New data from the Chicago Police Department bears out what equity advocates have long known: investing in people, rather than punitive technologies, has fostered a dramatic reduction in violent crime.As reported by WTTW, nearly a year after the end of the widespread use of the multi-mi...
Read More Aug 6, 2025
Organizing Stories: The Rossana 2019 Campaign
04/02/2025In the lead-up to our joint 10-year anniversary fundraiser on May 1, we will be sharing stories about key moments in our organizing history.=====In a concession interview, former Alder Deb Mell said that we “never stopped running over the last four years.” It’s the one thing that Deb Me...
Read More Apr 2, 2025
Treatment Not Trauma Implementation Begins!
Congratulations to 33rd Ward Alderwoman Rossana Rodríguez Sánchez, her staff, and the Collaborative for Community Wellness for helping launch and lead the fight for Treatment Not Trauma!The Treatment Not Trauma (TNT) initiative emerged as a direct response to the tragic murder of George Floyd, wh...
Read More May 31, 2024
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