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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Brett Chase

Pioneering environmental justice organization threatened with eviction from South Side headquarters

Cheryl Johnson, executive director of People for Community Recovery, received an eviction notice from the CHA’s Altgeld Gardens property manager, Manage Chicago. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times file photo)

Chicago’s oldest environmental justice organization, People for Community Recovery, is being threatened with eviction from its longtime home at Chicago Housing Authority’s Altgeld Gardens in Riverdale.

Cheryl Johnson, executive director of the organization founded by her mother, Hazel, said that for months she’s been trying to resolve the issue with the CHA and private Altgeld property manager Manage Chicago.

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