This South Side Chicagoan became CNN's 2025 hero of the year by growing jobs through gardening

Published on December 28, 2025

Through his nonprofit Southside Blooms, Quilen Blackwell is turning empty land into flower farms and giving young people a path to paid work and ...

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PAUL RATHOUZ - PressReader

December 28, 2025
After graduation, Paul served three formative years as a US Peace Corps volunteer in the Central African Republic, where he first taught math to ...

Her dad read 3,599 books. She is spreading his list around the world - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

December 29, 2025
Marci Pelzer shows off a list of the 3,599 books that her father, Dan Pelzer. Dan Pelzer's reading habit began in the Peace Corps. Before we dig into ...