I don't understand Chicago well enough yet to understand the geographic arbitrariness of some of this map, but I do know that as I drive to work the grocery stores disappear and the liquor stores and fast food joints take over. One of the things the center where I work does really well is snack time. Twice a week a full dinner is served at the after-school youth program, and the rest of the time the kids get a relatively healthy snack. Some of the kids get two snacks, since the school-age program which ends at 5:30 provides one as well, and at least five of the kids in the classroom where I spend most of my time stick around for the youth program as well.
I like to trash talk Wal Mart, but if they were to open a branch in North Lawndale I would have to grudgingly say something nice about them.
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