Volunteers deck South Side homes for the holidays: ‘It just brings the whole area to life’

James Webb, 39, of Homewood, volunteers Saturday with friends to decorate homes for Christmas during the annual My Block, My Hood, My City event Be A Part of the Light on South King Drive near East 83rd Street on the South Side. (Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times)

For a sixth year, the community group My Block, My Hood, My City decorated homes on the South Side Saturday for the holiday season.

Dozens of volunteers brightened more than eight miles of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive — as well as other South Side stretches — with lights, inflatables, ornaments and wreaths.