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Service helps on MLK Day, but some say it's not enough

Martin Luther King Jr Coretta Scott King MLK AmeriCorps Jesse Jackson

Members of AmeriCorps, a federal volunteerism agency, gather at Herzl Elementary School on Chicago's West Side for a beautification project. It was postponed because of inclement weather. (Esther Yoon-Ji Kang/WEBZ)

The week before Martin Luther King holiday, Theodore Herzl Elementary School on Chicago's West Side was abuzz with volunteers from the education nonprofit City Year, a part of the federal volunteerism agency AmeriCorps.

Herzl school is mere blocks from where King temporarily lived and worked during his Chicago campaign in 1966.

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