DNAinfo/Patty Wetli
IRVING PARK — As the city was eliminating mental health facilities, one neighborhood decided to take matters into their own hands.
The Kedzie Center — Chicago's first mental health clinic paid for directly by the community members it will serve — opened Wednesday in Irving Park, the result of a decade-long advocacy effort that culminated in residents voting to tax themselves in order to fund mental health services.
On today's DNAinfo Radio Extra, Patty Wetli dives into the red tape the group had to cut through to build the facility, and whether similar clinics are expected in other neighborhoods soon:
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