Project for Public Spaces

ALT 1. Text: Mayor Johnson Signs Order to Expand Food Access & Create Network of Year-Round Public Markets. Image: Mayor Johnson, holding a basket of groceries, speaks to the owner of Forty Acres Fresh Market, a neighborhood market in Austin opened with City funding.

ALT 2. Text: Mayor Johnson’s Market City Action Plan is a community-informed strategy to make fresh, healthy food more affordable and accessible in Chicago, especially on the South and West Sides. Image: Mayor Brandon Johnson, in a market stand that says "Chicago Market City," signs the Chicago Market City Action Plan executive order in Austin alongside Ald. Chris Taliaferro, Greater Chicago Food Depository CEO Kate Maehr, Urban Growers Collective CEO Erika Allen, and Grow Greater Englewood Co-Founder Anton Seals.

ALT 3. Text: Developed alongside residents, the Action Plan will strengthen Chicago’s neighborhood markets, create opportunities for local food entrepreneurs, and advance a citywide network of farmers markets and year-round public markets. Image: A Chicago Youth Works employee washes green and red lettuce leaves in a large tub inside a greenhouse at Gary Comer Youth Center's farm in Greater Grand Crossing.

ALT 4. Text: The Market City Action Plan builds on Mayor Johnson’s existing initiatives to increase food access, including the Good Food Fund and Neighborhood Market Grant Program, urban agriculture development, and Protecting SNAP. Learn more at chi.gov/market-city. Image: Mayor Johnson poses for a photo with a Senior Black woman, wearing a "Food for Every Neighbor Fight to Save Our SNAP" shirt, at a Save Our SNAP event at the Go Green Griot Plaza in Englewood.