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Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun-Times
National
Kaitlin Washburn

New Boys and Girls Club opens on West Side ‘not only for our young people but by our young people’

Chris Harris, 13, who performed a poem with his twin, reacts Friday as visitors applaud them after the ribbon-cutting ceremony at the Boys and Girls Clubs of Chicago’s Rusu-McCartin Club on the West Side. (Pat Nabong/Sun-Times)

The first newly built Boys & Girls Club in two decades officially opened on the West Side Friday morning.

The club, which sits on the same campus as the 34-acre police and fire training academy, will offer programs for Austin, West Garfield Park, West Humboldt Park and nearby communities.

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