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CNN crowned a Chicagoan for its 2025 Hero of the Year. Quilen Blackwell won the votes with Southside Blooms, his nonprofit that is transforming vacant lots into flower farms and employing young people ...

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 ...