This South Side Chicagoan Became CNN’s 2025 Hero Of The Year By Growing Jobs Through Gardening

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

CNN has endured turmoil for years. Now Trump wants role in its fate

After Netflix made a big play to buy most of CNN's parent company, journalists and executives at the news network thought they had dodged a bullet. One week later, it's pretty clear they hadn't. Two ...
CNN

New photos released from Epstein’s estate showing Trump, Bannon, Bill Clinton and other high-profile people

Democrats on the House Oversight Committee have released photos from Jeffrey Epstein’s estate Friday showing the many powerful figures in the late sex trafficker’s orbit, including President Donald ...
Chicago Sun-Times

South Side flower shop owner named CNN's Hero of the Year

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Quilen Blackwell, Whose Nonprofit Flower Shop Employs At-Risk Chicago Youth, Named CNN’s Hero of the Year

New York (CNN) — Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit transforms vacant lots on Chicago’s South Side into flower farms that employ at-risk young people to grow, arrange and sell the flowers, is the 2025 ...
WRAL

Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit ‘farm-to-vase’ flower shop employs at-risk youth, is CNN’s Hero of the Year

New York (CNN) — Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit transforms vacant lots on Chicago’s South Side into flower farms that employ at-risk young people to grow, arrange and sell the flowers, is the 2025 ...
CNN

Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit ‘farm-to-vase’ flower shop employs at-risk youth, is CNN’s Hero of the Year

Quilen Blackwell, whose nonprofit transforms vacant lots on Chicago’s South Side into flower farms that employ at-risk young people to grow, arrange and sell the flowers, is the 2025 CNN Hero of the ...