Publications

The following reports have been produced by the staff of the Fredrick Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center (NAC) in partnership with various community groups, nonprofit organizations, and academic institutions across the Chicago metropolitan area.

• Northeastern Illinois Food Security Assessment (2008).
• A Profile of Health and Health Resources within Chicago's 77 Communities Chicago State University Geography students, through the NAC, completed the maps for this publication from the Northwestern University Institute for Healthcare Studies.
• An Assessment of Corner Stores In Suburban Cook County: Where They Are and What They Carry (2004).
• Bronzeville Food Access Study (2014).

• The Challenge of An Apple a Day (2005).
• Finding Food in Chicago and the Suburbs: Report of the Northeastern Illinois Community Food Security Assessment - Full Report (2008), Executive Summary (2008).
• Finding Food in Chicago and the Suburbs: Regional and Chicago-wide Food Access Maps (2008) This report by the Chicago Public Health Department outlines food access in a number of Chicago Communities. The NAC helped lead the study in the Austin community.
• VIDEO: Fighting Hunger Chicago Style: Food Insecurities and the Greater Chicago Food Depository.

Fredrick Blum Neighborhood Assistance Center (NAC)

Chicago State University

Williams Science Center - Room 321

9501 S. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive

Chicago, IL 60628-1598

Phone: (773) 995-3844 Fax: (773) 995-4482