The Active Living Logan Square partnership focuses on creating an environment that promotes physical activity and health in the southwest corner of Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood. This partnership represents a community-organizing model for active living that emphasizes resident leadership and decision making and a partnership with the Logan Square Neighborhood Association, a grassroots organization in a predominantly Latino urban community.

The partnership conducted an asset-based community survey focused on physical activities such as dancing, cycling, walking, and gardening. The survey identified safety concerns as a major barrier to physical activity. In response, the partnership helped initiate a walking school bus program and created a safety committee which brings together seven schools, two police districts, four Aldermen, and ten community-based organizations to collaborate on safety issues. Another challenge to physical activity is the lack of open space in Logan Square. The partnership is advocating for the development of the Bloomingdale Trail/Linear Park, an elevated rail-to-trail conversion. In doing so, it is helping to ensure city officials hear local residents' ideas and concerns. Since conducting the survey, the partnership organized "Ayuda Mutua" initiatives to create opportunities for residents to teach, learn, and engage in physical activities that are fun, and easily incorporated into daily life, and welcome participation by the whole family.

Active Living Logan Square's vision is that residents will implement a strategic plan that emphasizes the community's priorities, such as working with a local school to reinstate recess, increasing walking and cycling, creating an environment where neighbors know each other, and sharing skills that promote physical activity. To celebrate, residents will participate in "Sunday Parkways," where miles of Chicago's beautiful boulevards are closed to cars and open to pedestrians and bicyclists. These efforts will help make Logan Square a healthier, more vibrant community.

The partnership includes the Illinois Health Education Consortium, Logan Square Neighborhood Association, the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Nursing, the Chicagoland Bicycle Federation, Friends of the Bloomingdale Trail, Chicago Public Schools (McAuliffe Elementary School and Ames Middle School), the Illinois Department of Public Health, the City of Chicago Department of Police, Community Alternative Policing, the Department of Public Health (Healthy Hermosa), and others.