A march Friday aimed to draw attention to the need for a neighborhood library in Chicago's Back of the Yards.
There was certainly no shortage of passion for the project as roughly 50 people came out in the bitter cold to demand a standalone library.The only local library currently sits inside Back of the Yards College Prep, which some residents say is not convenient.
"It shows an investment into the kids of our future and also shows immediate investment into the current residents," added Kevin Johnson Jr., community organizer with Working Family Solidarity. "The cost would more than double if we were to do it as a standalone library itself, and the fact is the Chicago Public Library system already put a library here in the community at the high school," said Alderman Ray Lopez. "It's not often you see communities get not one, but two libraries in a decade -- let alone a generation."
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