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‘People deserve to have babies in their neighborhood’: Chicago South Side Birth Center celebrates Black Breastfeeding Week with first ‘Latch and Stroll’ event

Endia Williams feeds her six-week-old daughter Delilah during an event hosted by the Chicago South Side Birth Center called "Latch& Stroll: Black Breastfeeding Week 2022" at Jackson Park Aug. 27, 2022, in Chicago, Illinois.

CHICAGO -- Taylor King held her 21-month-old son, Sterling King, as he napped underneath a tent in Chicago's Jackson Park on Saturday as she remembered what it was like to have to drive 40 minutes from her home on the South Side of Chicago to her birthing center where Sterling was born in 2020.

King made the 40-minute drive three times that day while

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