The Daily Herald has a nice article on Sweet Beginnings, a subsidiary of the North Lawndale Employment Network, which puts former felons to work on otherwise undevelopable land created as a part of O’Hare’s modernization project (via Mother Nature Network and Chase Me Ladies, I’m in the Cavalry). They also shot some video: 

Update: Chicago‘s previous coverage of NLEN’s Brenda Palms Barber from the 2009 Green Awards, and a video.