Chicago Prize Finalist: ‘Now Is The Time: Advancing North Lawndale Together’

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Phoenix House is located in a renovated greystone in Chicago's North Lawndale community. Adriana Cardona-Maguigad / WBEZ
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Phoenix House is located in a renovated greystone in Chicago's North Lawndale community. Adriana Cardona-Maguigad / WBEZ

Chicago Prize Finalist: ‘Now Is The Time: Advancing North Lawndale Together’

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The Pritzker Traubert Foundation is offering a $10 million grant to a single community-driven initiative aimed at bettering the lives of residents on the South or West Side of Chicago.

Reset sits down with one of the Chicago Prize finalists, “Now Is The Time: Advancing North Lawndale Together,” to hear about their proposal.

GUESTS: Rodney Brown, executive member of the North Lawndale Community Coordinating Council subcommittee

Haman Cross III, artist with Freedom House Studios

Debra Wesley, president of Sinai Community Institute