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LVEJO’s 3rd Annual: – Roots of Change- Youth Summit
The Little Village Environmental Justice Organization (LVEJO) is excited to host its 3rd Annual Roots of Change Youth Summit. We will join forces with neighborhood schools, organizations and professionals to share and exchange knowledge with young people. LVEJO is leading the conversation on: Community Roots: How gentrification and displacement are affecting youth in Little […]
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Reclaiming Green Space- A Youth-Led Struggle
The La Villita Park is the culmination of a 15 year fight to obtain open, green space in Little Village, and decade long struggle to clean up the former Celotex Superfund site and the surrounding homes. When the organization started in 1995, students from Farragut High school volunteered at LVEJO. This group of young people […]
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Redevelopment ahead for Chicago’s two coal plant sites
Chicago Tribune, Jule Wernau. When Chicago’s last two coal plants shut down two years ago, residents who had lived amid the plants’ pollution were still angry. “You killed my mother,” one woman told the president of Midwest Generation, the coal plants’ owner, at a hearing to determine how to redevelop the sites. Residents in Pilsen […]
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