City Civics Day draws hundreds of Chicagoans eager to get involved in their communities

A skate park. Playgrounds. Bathing facilities for the homeless. Those are some of the ideas Chicagoans jotted on a whiteboard yesterday in response to a question about how they would repurpose the vacant lots in their neighborhoods. Seventy-two-year-old CeCe Edwards wrote “spa” and “wellness spaces” on the whiteboard, because she…

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