Uploaded January 2020 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
29.6% of the households in Greater Grand Crossing live beneath the federal poverty line. 22.4% of the houses are vacant. Like neighborhoods across the city—especially on the West and South Sides—Greater Grand Crossing is suffering from Chicago’s notorious wealth gap.
And Rebuild Foundation is changing the narrative by leveraging the power and potential of communities, buildings, and objects that others have written off to give spaces that have otherwise been forgotten a new breath of life.
In order to learn about the positive impact organizations across Chicago are having on the city, we teamed up with The Chicago Community Trust for Mind the Gap, a series that offers a first-hand look at the organizations (like Rebuild) that are reinvesting in communities across the city.
Learn more and do your part:
blog.chicagoideas.com/local_look/mind-the-gap
29.6% of the households in Greater Grand Crossing live beneath the federal poverty line. 22.4% of the houses are vacant. Like neighborhoods across the city—especially on the West and South Sides—Greater Grand Crossing is suffering from Chicago’s notorious wealth gap.
And Rebuild Foundation is changing the narrative by leveraging the power and potential of communities, buildings, and objects that others have written off to give spaces that have otherwise been forgotten a new breath of life.
In order to learn about the positive impact organizations across Chicago are having on the city, we teamed up with The Chicago Community Trust for Mind the Gap, a series that offers a first-hand look at the organizations (like Rebuild) that are reinvesting in communities across the city.
Learn more and do your part:
blog.chicagoideas.com/local_look/mind-the-gap
