Pop-up grocery store helping to fill food void for residents on Chicago's West Side
CHICAGO -- In the two days they've been open, the Garfield Park Grocery Store pop-up says they've already seen over a hundred residents coming through their doors. They seem to be quickly catching on in the neighborhood. While it's just a pop-up, organizers say it's a one-stop shop on a greater quest to open up a permanent grocery run for the community, by the community. The stream's Jamaica Ponder has more.
Taylor: We want to make sure they have access to be able to do that and not have to run into other communities all over the city. While this shop may be brand newâ¦it's far from Garfield Park Community Council's found themselves behind the register.Taylor: What we've done over the last 12 years, is host the neighborhood market from June to October, twice a month we kind of started learning this process to build out what the market looks like.
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