Welcome to the West Rogers Park Community Organization (WRPCO) Website. We hope you will stay for a while and look around. We highlight below some of our recent and future activities.
If you are a resident of West Rogers Park or West Ridge, WRPCO is your organization. If you are not yet a member please consider joining. If you would like to participate to a greater extent, please contact us.
November 18, 2011
Dear Friends and Neighbors,
I am sorry to tell you that Pamela Stauffer, our 2011-12 Chair, has had to step down. At our last board meeting (November 10, 2011), we accepted her resignation with regret, and I became the Acting Chair of the West Rogers Park Community Organization. The members of the board extend their thanks to Pamela for all her hard work and welcome her continuing participation in the WRPCO Board.
The board is moving ahead to implement the ideas generated at our October retreat. The Community Planning Board will continue to meet, and the Education Committee hopes to advance the planning of a multi-school event. Our Green Initiative group is also working on sustainibility in the neighborhood as well as on the Western Avenue project.
Our next board meeting will be on December 8, 2011, at 7:00 p.m. If you are interested in becoming more active in our community through WRPCO and would like to attend the meeting, please contact me for details at chair@wrpco.org.
Sincerely,
Evelyn Asch
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The planning phase of the Western Avenue economic development project ended in 2010. The next phase of our work is critical – turning ideas into reality. To embark on that phase we launched the Coupon Book and are completed two clean-up days on April 10th and September 11th. We need you to volunteer and come out to help. For more on Western Avenue click here
WRPCO successfully conducted a Forum of the Candidates, running in the April 5, 2011 Aldermanic runoff election, moderated by Ben Joravsky on Thursday, March 31, 2011 at the Devon Bank, Lower Level Community Room. With the election of Debra Silverstein, her responses to WRPCO questions and the Runoff Candidate Bios continue to be posted here. Other details of both this and the previous Forum are at 2011 Forums
WRPCO selected its new Officers and Board members during the Annual General Meeting on March 10th. Please go to the About Us page for details.
WRPCO successfully conducted the Forum of the five candidates running in the February 22, 2011 election, on Wednesday, January 19, 2011 at Devon Bank. It was moderated by Ben Joravsky noted political journalist of the Chicago Reader.
WRPCO received formal notification from the IRS on January 19th, 2011 that its application for 501 (c) (3) status had been approved effective June 3, 2008. We are now a tax-exempt organization and your donations are tax deductible!
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Final scored Community Concerns Survey results presented in an easy-to-read format are posted below. We believe it is a good portrayal of the state of the 50th Ward. Contact WRPCO info@wrpco.org for more details.