CHICAGO — The Walt Disney Company has surprised a Chicago family with a trip of a lifetime.
Quilen and Hannah Blackwell are the owners of Southside Blooms, and they have been busy making a difference on the South Side of Chicago through their nonprofit, Chicago Eco House. For nearly 10 years they have hired local youth to plant flower gardens in vacant lots. They then sell the flowers as a way to stimulate the community.
The Blackwells are a family that has worked hard to give back to their own community in Englewood, and they were recently surprised with a trip to Disney World.
“I was asking a lot of questions,” Quilen said. “I was really trying to figure it out. But this? This blew my mind.”
Jasmine Minor, with our sister station ABC7 in Chicago, was there to unveil the surprise and break the good news.
“We’ve never thought, you know, …