In Rock Island, it’s not called the Department of Public Works, it’s Housing and Neighborhoods. Their Planning and Economic Development is known as Community and Economic Development. Their very first stated goal is to focus on preserving the city’s older neighborhoods. In Peoria, it’s the Department of Planning and Growth. It has its own Community […]
Steve Combs
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Back to the future in Enos Park
In the late 1800s it was known as the “Jewel of Springfield”! A hundred years later in 1997 it was officially classified as a “blighted community” qualified to establish its own TIF district. In 2003 it became the geographical “heart” of the Mid-Illinois Medical District. Today it’s a neighborhood struggling to regain the image of […]
