A West Side community is ready to fight back against a possible 'Grinch.'
Leah HopeLight Up Lawndale, Chicago organizers are working on a brighter 2024 display near Douglas and Independence boulevards after vandals struck last year.Someone vandalized holiday lights in the city's Lawndale neighborhood last year.But, this year, thousands of lights are going up along Douglas Boulevard. It's three days from the big reveal of Light Up Lawndale.
Shaw said the first holiday lights fest was four years ago, as something nice for the people of Lawndale during the pandemic, and it grew. "Really looking to transform this space, so the entire neighborhood can really enjoy it, really good to have something like this in your own back yard," Riot Fest Director George Herrera said. "We are going to make this so nice that hopefully people won't want to mess with it."The vandals destroyed more than 500 strands of lights that would have been reused.
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