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Cleaning the Neighborhood
Continue the historic mission of the Edgewater Community Council's committee: Edgewater Beautiful - to encourage practical beautification efforts through sound practices.
This target area will involve all of those activities necessary to keep Edgewater clean, and recruiting the necessary community participation and resources to accomplish it, and will:
a) Work with Streets and Sanitation to sponsor and actively recruit for their Clean & Green Spring and Fall events.
b) Work with the various block clubs to support and encourage their local cleanup efforts
c) Work with the Chambers of Commerce, the Development Corporations, and the Special Services Areas (SSAs) in their efforts to clean the commercial districts.
d) Work with neighborhood Institutions (Loyola University, Senn High School, etc.) in their efforts to help clean the area immediately around them.
Cleaning the Neighborhood - Timeline Goals
Benchmarks:
2010 10% Fast Food Restaurants in Edgewater sign on to cleaning plan - Goal Met
Activities
Earth Day: EESP is a lead collaborative partner, with the 48th Ward, Sen Steans office and Loyola, on the annual Earth Day Clean & Green events in Edgewater.
Clearing Alleys of Litter, Weeds, & Weed Trees: With the support of the Dept of Streets & Sanitation there are regular walkabouts throughout Edgewater. Focus is mainly on the CTA embankment alleys.
Partnering with Loyola student scientists, EESP sponsored a number of surveys that have provided the community, businesses and public officials information on where resources should be focused and improvements made. (e.g. Survey of mid level building recycling; audit of trees & their health on major streets; survey of cleaning programs at fast food outlets, etc.)
Committee Members of Cleaning the Neighborhood
Members Name Email
Chair Allen Stryczek astryczek@sbcglobal.net
CONSULTED PARTICIPANTS
This target area will involve all of those activities necessary to keep Edgewater clean, and recruiting the necessary community participation and resources to accomplish it, and will:
a) Work with Streets and Sanitation to sponsor and actively recruit for their Clean & Green Spring and Fall events.
b) Work with the various block clubs to support and encourage their local cleanup efforts
c) Work with the Chambers of Commerce, the Development Corporations, and the Special Services Areas (SSAs) in their efforts to clean the commercial districts.
d) Work with neighborhood Institutions (Loyola University, Senn High School, etc.) in their efforts to help clean the area immediately around them.
Cleaning the Neighborhood - Timeline Goals
Benchmarks:
2010 10% Fast Food Restaurants in Edgewater sign on to cleaning plan - Goal Met
Activities
Earth Day: EESP is a lead collaborative partner, with the 48th Ward, Sen Steans office and Loyola, on the annual Earth Day Clean & Green events in Edgewater.
Clearing Alleys of Litter, Weeds, & Weed Trees: With the support of the Dept of Streets & Sanitation there are regular walkabouts throughout Edgewater. Focus is mainly on the CTA embankment alleys.
Partnering with Loyola student scientists, EESP sponsored a number of surveys that have provided the community, businesses and public officials information on where resources should be focused and improvements made. (e.g. Survey of mid level building recycling; audit of trees & their health on major streets; survey of cleaning programs at fast food outlets, etc.)
Committee Members of Cleaning the Neighborhood
Members Name Email
Chair Allen Stryczek astryczek@sbcglobal.net
CONSULTED PARTICIPANTS
- Rae Ann Cecrle, SSA #26 President, and Business Owners
- Bill Curtin, Loyola University, Director of Environmental Services
- Pat Heneghan, 40th Ward Streets and Sanitation Supervisor
- Conrad Suerth, 48th Ward Streets and Sanitation Supervisor
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The Edgewater Environmental Sustainability Project (EESP) is an all volunteer group - and a partner of the Overhead Project, a 501(c)3 non profit group.(EIN 46-4457047). Donations to EESP are tax deductible under IRS rules.*
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