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Decorative board-ups: A tool in the battle against the vacancy epidemic

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The Neighborhood Foundation has been installing painted panels on abandoned buildings for nearly two decades. by Jake Malooley The boarded-up storefront on the northwest corner of Chicago and Drake not long ago looked like many of Chicago's other 18,000 abandoned buildings. The plywood sheets covering its sidewalk-facing windows were a reminder of the commercial blight in this stretch of Humboldt Park.…

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