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These Chicago residents are trying to revitalize their neighborhood without gentrification

For decades, North Lawndale has been slipping into weedy neglect.In 1966, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. moved his wife and four children into a dilapidated apartment here to highlight housing inequalities in Northern cities.