West Side Cultural Camp For Young People Reopens
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(CBS) -- Money problems kept it out of Chicago for the last four years, but now it's back on the West Side, giving kids something they've never experienced.
CBS 2's Audrina Bigos spent the day at Ailey Camp Chicago.
It's all new territory.
"I'm used to doing hip-hop," says Randy Garvin.
Ailey Camp had been operating for a decade before being shuttered the last four years because of lack of funds.
But now it's back.
"In the heart of this violence and all that's going on we're showing them this is better way than the streets and guns," 24th Ward Ald. Michael Scott says.
The camp is free for all 90 students. They're taught by professional instructors seven hours a day.
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