Year in Review | Music

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Throughout 2020, Chicago musicians started projects to connect their neighbors with the resources they need. Rapper and educator Matt Muse helped launch Washington Park grocery drive the People’s Grab-N-Go after Chicago Public Schools suspended its meal distribution program on May 31. The Grab-N-Go began as an impromptu Costco trip but soon expanded to involve more than 30 volunteers. By the time the grassroots program wrapped up at the end of August, it had provided food and supplies to more than 4,000 families.

Muse had previously coordinated the Love & Nappyness Hair Care Drive during the 2019 holiday season, an e ort he repeated this fall. But as he told the Reader this summer, working for the Grab-N-Go helped him realize that “Chicago has a huge resource problem.”