I first noticed this building while by on the Dan Ryan Expressway a month earlier. Surrounded by the White Sox baseball stadium, a high school, housing projects, and an eight-lane super highway; it feels like this building is a monument to a south side that existed decades ago.

So when I walked into the building, having arrived early for the event, and took a seat in one of the padded benches toward the back of the auditorium; I was not surprised to see the crowd seated around me made up of mostly senior citizens who were concluding their early morning Bible study session.

They ended their session by singing a hymn a capella. They all seemed to know the hymn’s lyrics, and they sang those lyrics with the kind of soul that only comes from having lived for many decades.

As the seniors gathered their things and began their procession out of the auditorium, I felt like I was watching some sort of Benjamin Button-like time lapse video.

Leaving the auditorium were the steady, slow steps of the elders in two-piece suits and long dresses. Entering the auditorium were the confident and steady strides of the millennials, rocking manicured beards, shredded jeans, and pencil skirts.

The journey continues in the Wentworth Gardens neighborhood on the south side, at the corner of 37th Street and Wentworth.

Intro Theme Music: Victory Lap by QSTN ft. Mecca:83
Background Music: www.bensound.com/

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