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City Selling Former Funeral Home
Health-focused business will take over.
Mar 6th, 2026 by Jeramey Jannene
Volunteers Clean Up Abandoned Building in Harambee
Part of a series of community clean-ups organized by county Sup. Priscilla Coggs-Jones.
Jul 1st, 2023 by Graham Kilmer
New Emergency Housing For Those With Lead Poisoning
Community Advocates expanding its portfolio of temporary housing.
May 8th, 2023 by Jeramey Jannene
Foreclosed Home Will House Those Displaced By Lead Abatement
Community Advocates will buy, rehab city-owned home for temporarily displaced families.
Apr 12th, 2022 by Jeramey Jannene
Committee Endorses Dana World-Patterson’s Appointment To FPC
Human trafficking victims' advocate draws high praise from council members.
Dec 2nd, 2021 by Jeramey Jannene
Meet 14 Urban Farmers
14 Milwaukee residents growing a rich variety of crops.
Oct 28th, 2021 by Sam Woods
Census Data Shows Changing Milwaukee Demographics
Fewer white residents citywide, but shrinking population totals in many majority-Black neighborhoods.
Sep 3rd, 2021 by Jeramey Jannene
Assessments Up 9% to $30.5 Billion
New values were calculated prior to COVID-19 pandemic.
Apr 24th, 2020 by Jeramey Jannene
The Enduring Impact of Redlining
Polices begun in 1930s can still be seen in metro-Milwaukee segregation.
Mar 5th, 2019 by Leah Foltman and Malia Jones
“Most Important Election Of Our Lifetimes”
Obama’s speech here says health care, education, living wage are on the line.
Oct 29th, 2018 by Ximena Conde
North Side Leaders Plead for Safe Driving
Reckless driving is plaguing the North Side, community leaders say.
Oct 16th, 2017 by Elliot Hughes
Sherman Park Has Been a Melting Pot
Tracing the neighborhood’s German, Jewish and African American heritage.
Aug 25th, 2017 by Jill Florence Lackey, PhD
Inner City Community Garden Expands
“We Got This” youth group acquires Borchert Field lots, will add fruit trees.
Aug 8th, 2017 by Andrea Waxman
The Rise and Fall of Bronzeville
At its peak in the 1930s to 1950s, it had quite a history.
Aug 5th, 2017 by Jill Florence Lackey, PhD
“Garden of Hope” for Youths in Detention
Andre Lee Ellis mentoring program creates new effort at county detention center.
Jun 29th, 2017 by Andrea Waxman
Study Finds Safe & Sound Works
Program's work to create block clubs helps reduce violence in city.
May 11th, 2017 by Andrea Waxman
Do Non-Profits Need New Approach?
Experts jab local non-profits; they keep growing, but so does poverty.
May 2nd, 2017 by Jabril Faraj
Bosco’s Is a Baseball Tavern
Riverwest bar once was next to gas station owned by Bob Uecker's father.
Apr 7th, 2017 by Michael Horne
Bader’s Move to Central City Is Laudable
Bader Philanthropies will move from Third Ward to 3318 N. MLK Drive.
Dec 4th, 2016 by Denise Wooten
Zaffiro’s Has $2 Microbeers, Great Pizza
City’s original thin-crust pie place has 2-for-1 rail mixers and great $2 micro-beers.
Dec 11th, 2015 by Joey Grihalva
Foreclosure Problem Persists in City
It's a different kind of foreclosure problem, caused by poverty, experts say.
Sep 6th, 2015 by Matthew Wisla
Will Streetcar Help The Inner City?
Opponents say it won’t. Let’s examine the data.
Feb 4th, 2015 by Bruce Thompson
Segregation Still Major Problem in Metro Area
More than four decades after Fair Housing Act, suburbs still unfriendly to poor and minorities.
Jan 2nd, 2015 by Brendan O’Brien
Faces of the City
Show at Art is For Lovers gallery features photos of city people and neighborhoods.
Jun 9th, 2014 by Brittany Carloni
Three More Neighborhoods Will Get City Loans
Pulaski Park, St. Joseph’s and Martin Drive neighborhoods now eligible for TIN loan program to increase property values and owner occupancy.
Jan 7th, 2014 by Brendan O’Brien
Tips for New Home Buyers
25 organizations at Housing Resources Fair offered advice to city home buyers.
Nov 18th, 2013 by Maria Corpus
Making the City Safer
Safe & Sound honors neighborhood leaders who make Milwaukee a safer place.
Aug 1st, 2013 by Edgar Mendez
How to Build a Block Club
Neighbors band together on near North Side but encounter challenges.
Jun 24th, 2013 by Andrea Waxman
No Country for Black Men
New study shows Wisconsin leads the nation in black incarceration, with a shockingly high rate. Why?
Apr 25th, 2013 by Bruce Murphy
Eight Neighborhoods Targeted for Home Improvement Loans
City $900,000 in loan money available for home loans.
Mar 28th, 2013 by Andrea Waxman
A New Community Group Rises
Block clubs have combined to create a new non-profit serving the neighborhood at 8th and Burleigh.
Mar 6th, 2013 by Andrea Waxman
