South Side gets Christmas lights, cheer at My Block, My Hood, My City holiday celebration: ‘It’s inspiring hope’
by Jake Sheridan, Chicago Tribune
Dec 05, 2023
3 minutes
CHICAGO -- Before the lights strung upon a 20-foot Christmas tree off South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive began to shine, Jahmal Cole had a message for the crowd at My Block, My Hood, My City’s holiday celebration.
There are always decorations up on the roads of neighborhoods like Uptown, Edgewater and Greek Town, Cole said. But such festive displays don’t often come to the South Side, he added.
That means the
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