Church buys troubled Chatham store in effort to transform community

At 79th and Cottage Grove in Chicago’s Chatham neighborhood, there was a business with a troubled history: Happy Liquor and Foods.

“We have had issues of people being shot, robbed, beat,” said Pastor John Hannah of New Life Covenant Southeast Church.

Pastor Hannah’s church is about three blocks from where the store sat for decades…

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