Jobs. Block Clubs. Investment: How Chicagoans Are Interrupting Violence at Its Roots

Jobs. Block Clubs. Investment: How Chicagoans Are Interrupting Violence at its Roots

This story was produced in partnership with the Illinois Answers Project as part of their series Making it in Chicago: Detours and Dead Ends on the Path to Opportunity. ELMONT CRAGIN — On a recent Tuesday, dozens of people lined the block waiting their turn at a food pantry that shares a building with the […] The post Jobs. Block Clubs. Investment: How Chicagoans Are Interrupting Violence at its Roots appeared first on South Side Weekly.

Jobs. Block Clubs. Investment: How Chicagoans are Interrupting Violence at its Roots

CHICAGO — On a recent Tuesday, dozens of people lined the block waiting their turn at a food pantry that shares a building with the Institute for Nonviolence Chicago (INVC). The long line was a stark reminder of the connections between poverty and violence cited by researchers and advocates, and a major part of why INVC and similar organizations include workforce development in their programming.  Inside INVC that afternoon, a dozen young Black …