EXHIBIT 

The history of Chicago's North Lawndale community is rich and complex. The once desirable neighborhood full of job opportunity and security fell to abandonment with the rise of gang related activity. Considered the second most blighted neighborhood in the city, the current social and economic confinements do not serve it's occupants as it once did.

Civil rights movements, industrial centers and classic brownstone buildings were slowly replaced by dark alleys, littered streets and abandoned lots. In creating a monument to what once lived among those streets, a source of open dialog and self reflection, the hopes in inspiring the community to take back ownership of what once stood.