Fillmore Center project, touted as jobs engine for struggling North Lawndale, clears city commission

By Brian J. Rogal. Originally appeared in the Chicago Tribune.

A nearly vacant five-story brick building on the West Side will come back to life this summer as The Fillmore Center, eventually employing hundreds and bringing business activity back to North Lawndale, a neighborhood hit by decades of disinvestment.

Steans Family Foundation, a Chicago philanthropy, bought the 111-year-old property at 4100 W. Fillmore St. for $3.3 million in 2022, and construction crews are transforming portions of its cavernous interior into Fillmore Linen Service, an industrial-scale laundry that will serve Chicago hospitals.\

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Jesse Green, from left, executive director of the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council, Patricia Ford, executive director of the Steans Family Foundation, and trustee James Kastenholz inside the warehouse building that is being rehabbed into The Fillmore Center. (Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune)