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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Michael Loria

10-acre youth sports complex, community center opens on West Side: ‘It’ll be valuable to have kids from all different neighborhoods under one roof’

A ceremonial ribbon stretches the length of the indoor turf field at the new North Austin Center, a community center and sports complex from the Chicago Fire Foundation and others in the West Side neighborhood that opened Thursday. (Anthony Vazquez/Sun-Times)

Uriah and Alanah Gomez explored a new sports complex on the West Side on Thursday. And taking in its pristine hardwood basketball court, cavernous indoor turf field and other facilities, the siblings nodded in agreement that it was something they could get used to.

“It’s so modern. It’s going to be an amazing program for kids in the neighborhood,” said Priscilla Gomez, their mother. “The kids here didn’t have anything prior to this building being built.”

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