Discover your neighbors

Amidst the affluent suburbs of the Fox Valley, we have 48,000 people living below the federal poverty limit. Many of them live in subsidized or low-income private housing communities– neighborhoods you may have never heard of, much less seen.

Will you take our one-hour
neighborhood challenge?

We invite you to invest one hour with a Riverworks Community Coordinator. We'll guide you on a gentle, eye-opening tour that may change your life.

“In May of 1988, I knocked on the door of an apartment in a Riverworks Community called Casa Linda, a low income private housing community in Elgin. I had no idea what to expect when I knocked on that door. What I found were incredible people living in incredibly difficult circumstances. My life has never been the same. Neither will yours!”
– Jay Curtis, President & CEO