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"The way we think about safety is having a healthy community," said Brittany Spralls, an organizer with the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council.

The block club convention will share information on city resources that are available to organize a block club. "To create a better model of public safety, we have to have communities and blocks engaged."

Residents will soon be able to give feedback on the plans for 3400 W. Ogden Ave. as part of the city-led INVEST South/West program.

A community expo beforehand will offer free haircuts, books and sports equipment for kids. Parents will also be able to sign up their kids for summer youth programs.

The monthlong exhibit examines how mobility, transit and freedom of movement intersect with social issues facing residents of North Lawndale.

North Lawndale Employment Network is hosting a virtual hiring event 10 a.m. Saturday. " We're meeting people with all skill levels, with all backgrounds."

The mural, depicting the Black Power fist over a backdrop of line patterns, was developed in partnership with community members to make the area around Homan and Harrison more pedestrian-friendly.

A West Side group is trying to make the underused Franklin Park safer, more walkable and more welcoming. "I want it to be improved so it looks nice, like the parks look in more affluent neighborhoods."

Urban Market plans to open in the Ogden Commons development in about two years as a local group works to address the root causes of health disparities.

The new design of the Sears Sunken Garden will incorporate feedback from residents on how they want the garden to look.

Organizers are raising money to repurpose the shipping containers, which will help turn a formerly vacant lot into a "place to be."

Organizers are giving away gift cards at their weekly food giveaway, Soup for the Soul, at Stone Temple Missionary Baptist Church on Monday. Here's how you can donate.

The art installation builds off a walkability study conducted by residents that suggested several improvements to make the area more pedestrian-friendly.

Youths will work with an artist to design a map that will showcase and link community gathering spaces in the neighborhood.

Organizers will deliver boxes to residents' doors biweekly in North Lawndale and Little Village. The boxes will contain up to 45 pounds of fresh fruits, veggies, meat and dairy.

The virtual events will be a series of frank conversations about what racism is and how it still impacts Black people in Chicago.

The Sunken Gardens are more than a century old. Their redesign will be a walk back in history that will allow residents to envision a new future for their community, organizers said.

Neighbors are planning to decorate at least 225 trees along Douglas Boulevard — but they need your help. "We're going to do it in this area because this is where we hear the shots," one organizer said.

Some West Side parents vow to fight the plan, which would see three neighborhood schools closed. "We have schools that are already open, and we are underfunded,” one parent said.