Crime fills the void of opportunity. From its outset the Phillips Partnership has tackled crime head on, organizing and aiding community organizations, forging special law-enforcement partnerships and guiding new preventative strategies. These efforts have driven down crime rates in Phillips, vastly improving opportunities for investment. And the Partnership has followed through, immediately leveraging these opportunities to results – quality housing on blocks once blighted by drugs, corporate expansions, public realm improvements.

Chicago-Lake Intervention (2002–)
The Phillips Partnership has set in motion a chain of highly successful community partnerships to improve conditions at the neighborhood’s busiest and most volatile intersection. These include the creation of the Chicago Lake Improvement Project and the Chicago-Lake Crime Workgroup, both alliances of residents, businesses and public officials. Working together, these groups cleaned up the intersection and developed enforcement strategies that cut crime in half within six months. Lessons learned from these efforts have been translated into the Citizens and Law Enforcement Action Nework (CLEAN), which is now targeting quality-of-life crime along Lake Street, Bloomington Ave. and Franklin Ave. in Phillips.

Joseph Selvaggio Initiative (1998-2001)
The Phillips Partnership organized a comprehensive plan to stabilize the neighborhood between the Abbott Northwestern Hospital and Wells Fargo campuses. The initiative tore down crack houses, converted slum apartments, helped every one of the 67 homeowners in the target area make improvements to their properties, and beautified the sidewalks. Today crime has virtually vanished from these blocks.

Community Crime Prevention Initiative (1998–)
Organized by the Phillips Partnership, CCPI brings community residents together for monthly meetings to increase community awareness of and involvement in discouraging livability crimes.