Founded 152 years ago as a Civil War orphanage, the noted West Side social services agency UCAN Chicago named Christa Hamilton its first woman and first Black CEO. Its programs include foster care, violence prevention and workforce development.
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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