La Asociación de Vecinos de Logan Square repartiran recursos de vivienda y de inmigración al Vecindario de Hermosa! Dé un paseo por el corredor de Armitage para recibir máscaras, kits de arte y aprenda de recursos disponibles para usted.
Macarillas y Kits de Arte Gratis, Información de sus derechos, y recursos de vivienda y inmigración
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Read MoreOn Tuesday, September 22 at 6:30 pm, LSNA is hosting A VIRTUAL night of Comedy with the AMAZING help of comedians, Carly Kane, Audrey Jonas, and Adam Burke. Hosted by Janice V. Rodriguez.
Watch with us on our Facebook Page!
Read MoreThe Logan Square Neighborhood Association with help from a generous Shared Smiles grant award from LISC presents Carnaval de Cariño: Comida, Cultura y Solidaridad. A celebration of our Latinx, Afro-Latinx and Caribbean cultura! We are proud to partner with local restaurants to help feed 100 of our families. Selected families will receive a certificate for a family meal at one of our participating restaurants.
Read MoreBLOCK CLUB CHICAGO, MINA BLOOM: Friday morning, Logan Square leaders and immigration activists rallied around the father and his family at a press conference and “know your rights” demonstration in front of Chase Elementary School, 2021 N. Point St. The man is a parent of Chase students and was arrested near the school.
Photo by: Mina Bloom
This fall Parent Mentors are ready to get back to school. Safely. Instead of entering the classroom, Parent Mentors will try numerous strategies to work with students and support community school teachers.
Read MoreNancy Aardema, community organizer and outgoing Executive Director of Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA), will be honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award, which recognizes a professional in children’s services who has made outstanding contributions to the field and has helped to advance forward-thinking and innovative programs benefiting disadvantaged children and families.
Read MoreThe awards are part of Field’s ongoing investment in racial justice visionaries and organizations addressing systemic issues in Chicago’s divested communities. The MacArthur Foundation committed $2.1 million to support the awards to recognize and support diverse leaders from communities affected by Chicago’s history of structural racism, discrimination, and disinvestment.
Photo by Samantha Cabrera Friend
Read MoreEveryone has the right to be counted and to be represented fairly regardless of your citizenship status. By filing for the census you can help bring much-needed funding to YOUR community. If you need help filing for the Census 2020, please call or visit Logan Square Neighborhood Association.
Toda persona tiene derecho de ser contada y representada de manera justa, independientemente de su estatus migratorio. Al llenar el censo, puedes ayudar a traer los fondos que necesitamos a NUESTRO comunidad. Si necesitas ayuda a llenar el Censo 2020, llame o visite la Asociación de Vecinos de Logan Square (LSNA)
Read MoreEven though LSNA's offices are closed, our entire team is working hard to protect the rights of immigrants and undocumented people, our Parent Mentors, and our youth program participants. We have developed a list of resources to help if you are need due to the pandemic.
Aunque las oficinas de LSNA están cerradas, todo nuestro equipo está trabajando arduamente para proteger los derechos de los inmigrantes y las personas indocumentadas, nuestros padres mentores y los participantes de nuestro programa juvenil. Hemos desarrollado una lista de recursos para ayudarlo si lo necesita debido a la pandemia.
Read MoreWe have a new way to develop all neighborhoods without displacing people: equitable transit-oriented development.
Read MoreNotice to the community of intent to apply: LSNA is notifying the community that it intends to apply for a Nita M. Lowey 21st Century Community Learning Centers Grant. This not a guarantee of funding, only an intent to apply. For more information please visit: https://www.isbe.net/Pages/21st-Century-Community-Learning-Centers.aspx.
Read MoreLSNA is excited and honored to learn that the Parent Engagement Institute has been awarded The Woods Fund Chicago Power of Community Award!
The award recognizes the power of love and community and that the incredible team of Parent Mentors, Coordinators and Organizers who have put in your time and efforts for our children, schools and neighborhoods.
Read MoreLSNA is excited to announce that the Parent Mentor Program is a finalist for the Woods Fund Power of Community Award from @liscchicago honoring the contributions, #innovation and #excellence of #Chicagoans creating more equitable communities for our city’s residents.
Read MoreRamirez-Rosa told Block Club the idea came from community leaders involved in neighborhood groups like Brighton Park Neighborhood Council and Logan Square Neighborhood Association.
“I thought it was a great idea,” Ramirez-Rosa said. “We need to identify money to assist vulnerable Chicagoans, particularly those who have been left behind by the federal government.”
Read MoreJuliet De Jesus Alejandre, LSNA’s Youth Director, has been selected as the incoming Executive Director of Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA). She will begin her journey as Executive Director at LSNA’s 58th Annual Congress in May 2020.
Read More"We all grew up together, we all grew up in the same neighborhoods. And it's like all of a sudden, just because this new item has come into the neighborhood, it's like we suddenly have to move and get kicked out of our houses. It is not like we want to, but we are literally being kicked out because we can't afford the rent..”
Article by Mary Helt Gavin, Evanston Roundtable
Published: September 18, 2019
The monarch butterfly catches the eye first. Seeming about to alight on a sea of pastels, it covers about a third of the garage door in the 1700 block of Crain Street. The words, “Migration Is Beautiful” seem to fit for this time of year, when the monarch butterflies return to their home in Mexico.
Read MoreMayor Lori Lightfoot burst onto Chicago’s political stage with promises to run a transparent government that welcomed participation by grassroots neighborhood activists, groups that frequently critiqued her predecessor for shutting them out.
Read More“Many alders were upset that community organizations were left out of the discussion in designing the ordinance. Several mentioned Logan Square Neighborhood Association, in particular — based on what some of the alders said, it seemed that LSNA devised the same or similar idea, but was not included in developing or administering this ordinance.”
Read MoreGentrification is a process of exclusion and displacement. Not simply an individual process where people with money and resources move to poor communities, it is also a system that leaves the door open to investors who are attempting to profit.
This is what was explained by Norma Rios Sierra, a mother and president of Logan Square Neighborhood Association (LSNA), a community organization of families in Chicago who are attempting to fight for housing opportunities and against gentrification.
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