That's Rather Ambitious

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A local nonprofit organization named Sunshine Gospel Ministries is bringing a small-business incubator to the South Side of the city by the end of the year. Their goal: to create a thriving retail corridor that will employ up to 200 people on the now largely vacant stretch between 61st and Martin Luther King Drive to Cottage Grove.—Christopher Smith [Chicago Grid]