Pockettown: Change and Transformation on Chicago's S. Side

Jon Lowenstein

Freelance

Many buildings are being bought, demolished, rehabbed by the Comer Foundation. This site across from the school on 72nd St. will be turned into a parking lot for the teachers so the current lot can be made into a playground for the children. The Comer Foundation is establishing its own building company that is going to use local residents who want to be a part of the change in their own neighborhood. The Foundation is paying for them to become part of PACT (Pre-Apprenticeship Training Program) a city program which teachers residents basic building and rehabbing skills necessary to obtain an union apprenticeship. Anyone who completes the program successfully will be guaranteed a year position rebuilding the neighborhood.

Jon Lowenstein, "Pockettown: Change and Transformation on Chicago's S. Side," in POYi Archive, Item #45806, http://archive.poy.org/items/show/45806 (accessed April 19, 2025).