This week on Notes From Chicago, host Ashley Phillips sits down with Johnny Jones, documentary filmmaker, founder and CEO of The Lingo Chicago, and proud North Lawndale native. Johnny opens up about growing up in Rockwell Gardens housing projects on the west side, losing his mother at a young age, and how those formative experiences became the foundation for everything he creates today.

Johnny shares the story behind Lawndale Stories, his three-part short film series developed through a residency at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and why he felt compelled to document a neighborhood that rarely gets to tell its own story.

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