Empowerment in Chicago : grassroots participation in economic development and poverty alleviation /

"Empowerment in Chicago asks and answers the hard questions about Chicago's early experience with the EZ process. It provides an overview and history of the Empowerment Zone initiative as an economic development strategy. It provides a wealth of information about economic growth, job devel...

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Corporate Author: University of Illinois at Chicago. Great Cities Institute.
Other Authors: Herring, Cedric.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chicago : Great Cities Institute, University of Illinois at Chicago : distributed by University of Illinois Press, 1998.
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Table of Contents:
  • Empowerment in Chicago : grassroots participation in economic development and poverty alleviation / Michael Bennett, Noah Temaner Jenkins, and Cedric Herring
  • Community involvement in Chicago's empowerment zone / Doug Gills and Wanda White
  • A tale of two cities? : Profiles of Chicago's empowerment zone residents and non-zone residents / Cedric Herring
  • Chicago's empowerment zone : a chronology of events / Noah Temaner Jenkins and Kathy Feingold
  • Citizen participation in Chicago's application for empowerment zone and enterprise community status / Michelle L. Story-Stewart, Mark Sendzik, and Anna Marie Schuh
  • Business and economic development in Chicago's empowerment zone / John F. McDonald
  • Jobs and poverty alleviation in Chicago's empowerment zone / Nikolas Theodore
  • In their own words : interviews with two individuals who participated in the EZ planning process / Michael Bennett and Javier Nogueras.