NORTH PARK — From the launch of a long-hoped-for farmers market to beautification efforts along Bryn Mawr Avenue, the Hollywood-North Park Community Association has big plans for the neighborhoods it serves — and itself.
A group of association members will unveil a new vision for Hollywood-North Park and a new structure for the organization, 7 p.m. Tuesday at North Park University's Johnson Center, Room 325 (see map).
All community residents — including non-association members — are invited to learn more about the organization's reinvention and its initiatives, some of which, such as Food Truck Fridays, have already come to fruition.
The presentation (click here to view an outline) is expected to include information about the association's areas of focus — commerce, education, the environment, community care, and arts and culture — and specific actions and goals being pursued within each of those categories.
The Hollywood-North Park community is bounded by Peterson Avenue, the North Branch of the Chicago River, Pulaski Road and the North Shore Channel.
According to a history of the association, the organization was founded in 1951 when neighbors joined forces to shut down a problem business operating near Peterson and Jersey avenues on land that was, at the time, under the jurisdiction of the Sanitary District of Chicago (now the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District). The group of residents successfully campaigned to have the land transferred to the Chicago Park District and incorporated into Legion Park.
Another big win for the association: saving the grounds of the former Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium from commercial development and converting the land instead into North Park Village, which includes the North Park Village Nature Center.
