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Is this library politics?
A new building filled with social service and education amenities at Altgeld Gardens is a test case for the limits of design and architecture.
Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe An aerial view of the new Altgeld Family Resource Center just outside the Altgeld Gardens public housing units courtesy KOO/Mike Schwartz
Drive south on the Bishop Ford Expressway to Altgeld Gardens and you ll pass plenty of reminders you re in a landscape not meant for inquisitive visitors. There are looming grain silos next to a parked shipping freighter, a village-scaled water reclamation plant, and plenty of anonymous warehouses. But once you pass 130th Street and drive into the Chicago Housing Authority s (CHA) largest surviving traditional public housing community, that spell breaks on approach to the new Altgeld Family Resource Cente
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Mayor Lori Lightfoot said it best during an announcement Wednesday at the Altgeld Gardens/Murray Homes public housing development on the city’s Far South Side.
“This community unfortunately way too many times gets forgotten,” she said. “It’s physically isolated from other parts of Chicago. So it’s important to us to be very intentional about making sure Altgeld is not lost in the shuffle.”
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Lightfoot visited the neighborhood to herald the opening of the $7.5 million Altgeld Family Resource Center, a new 14,000-square-foot multi-use building at 955 E. 131st St. The snazzy, new complex includes a Chicago Public Library branch, a community center and a daycare center.