Mayor Johnson, Community Leaders Plant Trees in West Woodlawn to Build a Greener Chicago

Mayor Brandon Johnson joined residents and community leaders in West Woodlawn to celebrate Arbor Day with a tree-planting event that underscored a bigger mission: expanding Chicago’s urban canopy where it’s needed most.
Hosted by Blacks in Green, an environmental and economic justice nonprofit, the event highlighted the City’s Our Roots Chicago program — an ambitious effort to plant trees in South and West Side neighborhoods long deprived of green space.
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