A few weeks ago, the Illinois Local and Organic Food and Farm Task Force released a report outlining a plan to grow an Illinois-based farm and food system.
The purpose of the task force, created two years ago, was to devise a plan to enhance the local economy by producing and selling more fresh food within Illinois communities.
“The charge was to create a strategic plan for growing an Illinois-based farm and food system, capitalizing on Illinois’ natural resources; rich, productive farmland; a temperate climate, and a large, diversified consumer population who need to eat and who already spend $48 billion a year on food,” said Debbie Hillman, coordinator for the Illinois and Organic Food and Farm Task Force and co-chair of the Evanston Food Policy Council. “The economic potential is great because currently Illinois produces less than 5 percent of the food that Illinois citizens buy, plus our climate, soils and farming heritage can produce just about any human food outside tropical foodstuffs.”
State Rep. Julie Hamos (D) Evanston wrote and sponsored HB3990, the Illinois Local Food, Farms and Jobs Act, which recently passed in the House and is now in the Senate. The Farm Act proposes to create a not-for-profit corporation called the Local Food Council that would operate and oversee a state-based food and farm system through the Department of Agriculture.
The Act would also require that within 11 years at least 20 percent of food purchased by Illinois government agencies would be produced and grown in the state.
Today’s Closed Properties
8424 Monticello – Skokie – $214,900
1315 Western #201 – Lake Forest – $225,000
1217 Hull Terrace #2A – Evanston – $240,000
1874 York – Highland Park – $250,000 (foreclosure)
8841 Central Park – Skokie $265,000
3438 Greenleaf – Skokie $320,000
185 Stone – Lake Forest – $365,000
917 Westerfield #917 – Wilmette – $487,500
1720 Oak #302 – Evanston – $535,000
119 Sterling – Wilmette – $690,000
1029 Hinman – Evanston – $850,000
217 Washington – Lake Bluff – $925,000
80 Laurel – Highland Park – $1,400,000
294 Greenwood – Glencoe – $1,900,000
995 Eastwood – Glencoe – $2,565,000
675 Locust – Winnetka – $3,150,000
275 Mayflower – Lake Forest – $3,460,500
Under Contract – (list price=LP)
1936 Jackson – Evanston – $64,500 LP
1916 Hartrey – Evanston – $116,500 LP
10081 Frontage #F – Skokie – $129,900 LP
8001 Lockwood #104 – Skokie – $149,000 LP
9529 Bronx #417 – Skokie – $159,000 LP
1423 Ashland Ave #1423 – Evanston – $442,675 LP
75 Wooded Ln – Lake Forest – $549,000 LP
2408 Noyes – Evanston – $625,000 LP
2634 Laurel – Wilmette – $1,146,000 LP
2170 Painters Lake – Highland Park – $1,399,000 LP
1826 Windridge – Lake Forest – $2,150,000 LP
395 Green Bay – Lake Forest – $7,500,000 LP
Based on information from Midwest Real Estate Data for the period March 31, 2009 through April 2, 2009. Listing and solds by various Participants of MRED
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