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  • About TAKE
    • Housing & Economic Development
    • Education & Job Training
    • Community Advocacy
    • Community Partners >
      • News and Events
  • Programs
    • YouthBuild Construction Trades Training
    • Weatherization Program
    • BASIC
    • T2W3 Training Re-entry Ex-Offenders
    • Mentoring
    • Youth Employment Services (YES)
  • Registration
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    • City of ESL Website
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Coming January 2017

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TAKE is opening a thrift store to serve our community. To get information about how to donate or to get updates about our opening extravaganza, hours of operation, and sales events, visit our contact page.

Tomorrow's Builders Price of Privilege Tour

African American High School Students take a trip of a lifetime on the Price of Privilege Tour. Students traveled for over a week on a bus visiting the Civil Rights landmarks. The tour ended in Washington DC at the newly erected Martin Luther King memorial.

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School Garden Takes Root

News About
​Emerson Park Development Corporation

For 30 years Ceola Davis has been an outreach worker for the Lessie Bates Davis House (no relation) in the Emerson Park neighborhood of East St. Louis, IL. In 1997, at the age of 60, she had her hands full: In addition to working full-time, she was raising four grandchildren. Nonetheless, her community was her passion. When she heard about plans by transportation officials to extend the region’s light rail system, she immediately thought about how it could benefit the city’s poorest residents.

Read more at ​http://www.nhi.org/online/issues/128/ridingrails.html


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East St. Louis' Emerson Park neighborhood lands second housing development

 The 84-unit development will include 35 public housing units, 40 tax credit units and nine market-rate units. There will be two four-bedroom, 29 three-bedroom, 37 two-bedroom and 16 one-bedroom units.

 "The affordable units are for people making 60 percent or less of the area's median income," he said.

​Read more here.
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