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$50 Million Sankofa Wellness Center Opens In West Garfield Park

Sankofa Village opens on the West Side: clinics, YMCA and space for local businesses join to boost neighborhood health and ...

Sankofa Village Wellness Center opens in Chicago's West Garfield Park community

A new $48 million wellness center opened Thursday in the West Garfield Park neighborhood. The goal is to improve the health ...
WBEZ

‘This was built for you.’ West Garfield Park celebrates nearly $50 million wellness center

The Sankofa Village Wellness Center comes as new public health data shows West Garfield Park no longer has the lowest life ...
Block Club Chicago

Can This Wellness Center Help West Siders Live Longer? Sankofa Village Aims To Do Just That

The West Garfield Park facility offers primary medical care, fitness services and more. Access to these things could help ...
Block Club Chicago

West Garfield Park Mass Shooting Kills 3, Injures 1: ‘A Tragedy For The Whole Community’

A $10,000 reward is being offered for information in the Friday shooting that killed two men and one woman and critically ...

Neighbor helps rescue residents from burning West Garfield Park home

A selfless neighbor helped rescue several people from a burning home Monday morning in an incredible act of heroism. The fast ...
WBEZ

Growing healthy food to narrow Chicago’s 20-year life expectancy gap: ‘If we eat better, we do better’

Chicagoans are expected to die earlier in West Garfield Park than in any other neighborhood in the city. Sammie and Angela Taylor support a network of community gardens to help close that gap. Angela ...