News & Press

CNI’s transformational work is recognized by local and national media organizations. Recent clips are displayed below.

ENR Midwest

Midwest On the Scene: November 2022 November 9, 2022 Landmarks Illinois has announced the 2022 recipients of the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Preservation Awards, an annual program now in its 29th year that celebrates preservation efforts in Illinois. A jury of...

Detroit Public TV’s Great Lakes Now

Detroit Public TV’s Great Lakes Now presents “ Greening the Pullman Neighborhood,” a televised segment that explores the work of CNI, Alderman Beale, and others that are revitalizing the community and is a model for community renewal.

WGN9 Chicago

Culver's Joins Pullman's Revitalization Effort By Sean Lewis WGN 9 Midday News November 8, 2021 CHICAGO -- The effort to revitalize Chicago's Pullman neighborhood got a boost today with the opening of the first casual sit-done dining restaurant in decades.

CBS2 Chicago

Pullman National Monument Visitor Center Officially Opens By Asal Rezaei September 6, 2021 at 11:20 am CHICAGO (CBS) – This Labor Day is a historic one on Chicago’s South Side. The mayor, governor, and other political heavyweights came out for the official grand...

The Washington Post

These Chicago residents are trying to revitalize their neighborhood without gentrification For decades, governments have favored rental housing for low-income Americans. North Lawndale is a test case of whether homeownership is a better bet. By Kyle Swenson October...

Washington Post

These Chicago Residents are Trying to Revitalize Their Neighborhood without Gentrification For decades, governments have favored rental housing for low-income Americans. North Lawndale is a test case of whether homeownership is a better bet. Two single-family homes...

Preservation Magazine

Transitions: Places Restored, Threatened, Saved, and Lost RESTORED PULLMAN ARTSPACE LOFTS In May the renovated Pullman Artspace Lofts marked the first new multifamily residential development in Chicago’s Pullman neighborhood in more than 60 years. Nonprofit groups...

Chicago Tribune

Pullman Artspace Lofts complex marks historic community’s first multifamily development in 60 years The Pullman Artspace Lofts on South Langley Avenue in Chicago consists of two buildings from the 1880s, one seen at left, and new construction on what had been a vacant...