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“Outstanding service. They were extremely careful delivering the extra large container into our driveway.” -- A. L. GARNER
By TONIA HILLStaff WriterTwo Chicago organizations will be working together to host a community service cleanup event in Jackson Park and Woodlawn on Saturday, Aug. 19. Chicago Cares, Inc. and My Block My Hood My City will work together to transform parts of the neighborhood.“The city reflects who we are,” said Jamal Cole founder of My Block My Hood My City. The cleanup will consist of projects on 22 blocks in Woodlawn from 61st to 67th Street Stony Island Ave., to Dorchester Ave. “We’re starting in Jackson Park as the kickoff,” said Jenee Myers, CEO of Chicago Cares. “In that area, there are a lot of vacant city-owned lots. They [volunteers] will be spending the morning making public art, landscaping and cleaning up empty lots and the Metra corridor.” The project aligns with the My Block My Hood My City’s one block at a time initiative, which is, is a volunteer program. Volunteers meet four times a year to conduct service related projects across the city. Chicago Cares specializes in organizing volunteers and partners with corporations to clean up, transform and connect people from all parts of the city... (Hyde Park Herald)