In January, residents of Chicago's 37th Ward and a coalition of community groups gathered in the cold to protest outside a planned Amazon warehouse in the city's West Humboldt Park neighborhood. Demonstrators held signs demanding equality in hiring. They expressed frustration about being excluded from meetings on the project, and called for transparency from the local alderman and the .
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The residential and commercial development is from A.J. Patton of 548 Development, whose past work has drawn notice from Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s administration.