News & Press

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

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...

WLS7 Chicago

Pullman Artspace Lofts, which provides affordable housing and a community center, is an adaptive reuse of two, long-abandoned, rehabbed historic buildings that were once threatened to be demolished.   By Sarah Schulte WLS Channel 7 TV CHICAGO -- The first new...

WLS7 Chicago

Community Picnic Held in Celebration of Vacant Housing Restoration in Pullman A Pullman Community picnic celebrates the start of restoring more than 30 vacant homes in North Pullman. The restoration is all thanks to innovative private and public partnerships that...

Daily Southtown

Pullman project combines historic preservation, promotion of the arts in one project