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History professors at Trinity Christian College are teaming up with community leaders to learn how past problems have challenged struggling areas and what can be done to uplift them.

Their work is taking place even as the college in Palos Heights is facing closure at the end of the school year because the educators are hoping to carry on the college’s tradition of helping the world around them.

It’s work that’s already paying dividends.

LoLita Canady, president of the Rosemoor Community Association, who was born in nearby Roseland, said knowing the history of disinvested areas is a step toward creating a vision of “what the community should look like.”

“Knowing something like this is valuable for the community to understand,” she said, “how

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