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West End makes progress in participatory budgeting process

By: Kenda Burrows|June 25, 2025
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    • West End Revitalization Coordinators Thurgood Brooks, left, talks to leaders before the June 24, 2025 community input participatory budgeting meeting at the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center. CREDIT KENDA BURROWS

    West End Revitalization’s participatory budgeting process has entered a new phase on its way to unveiling the final ballot at Rock Island’s Aug. 30 Soul of the City festival. It will decide how WER will spend $40,000 to lift up this historic marginalized community.

    Those funds are in addition to a Thurgood Marshall Learning Center student-led effort that will…

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