City’s Neighborhood Opportunity Fund Has ‘Potential’ But Lacks Way To Measure Success, Watchdog Says – Block Club Chicago

The grant program, managed by the city’s Department of Planning and Development, awards grants up to $250,000 for development projects supporting “commercial corridors in Chicago’s underserved neighborhoods” on the South and West sides. But, “(w)ithout measuring the program’s performance against specific goals … [Planning and Development] cannot establish whether the program actually strengthens commercial corridors in disinvested neighborhoods,” according to the Office of the Inspector General.