The sprawling West Side neighborhood of Austin, Chicago’s third-largest community with over 100,000 residents, is a place of profound history, complex challenges, and unwavering resilience.
It’s a neighborhood that Benny Lee knows intimately. Once a high-ranking leader of the Vice Lords street gang, Lee has transformed his life to become one of the city’s most respected and effective street counselors, dedicating himself to uplifting formerly incarcerated individuals…