Fillmore Linen Service brings jobs and opportunity to North Lawndale
<p>Ron Vann has spent nearly a third of his life behind bars.</p><p>The 58-year-old’s lengthy record of drug trafficking offenses have been a red flag for prospective employers his entire adult life.</p><p>Two years ago, he applied for a job at Fillmore Linen Service, a commercial laundry in North Lawndale serving the healthcare industry. makes up a portion of the 168,000-square-foot Fillmore Center.
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<p>Ron Vann has spent nearly a third of his life behind bars.</p><p>The 58-year-old’s lengthy record of drug trafficking offenses have been a red flag for prospective employers his entire adult life.</p><p>Two years ago, he applied for a job at Fillmore Linen Service, a commercial laundry in North Lawndale serving the healthcare industry. makes up a portion of the 168,000-square-foot Fillmore Center. </p><p>The center, along with Fillmore Linen, is funded by the Steans Family Foundation to create more opportunities in North Lawndale, where upward mobility has been stifled for generations by disinvestment, high unemployment and poverty rates and violent crime.</p><p>Vann was among the first workers hired at the company, which prioritizes employing formerly incarcerated job-seekers, recovering addicts and others largely overlooked by local employers because of prior transgressions.</p><p>He was promoted a few months ago to supervisor, overseeing more than 100 workers and being able to hire some staffers.</p><p>“This is truly one of the best things that ever happened to me,” the longtime North Lawndale resident said. “I could have been in jail for life.
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- <p>Ron Vann has spent nearly a third of his life behind bars.</p><p>The 58-year-old’s lengthy record of drug trafficking offenses have been a red flag for prospective employers his entire adult life.</p><p>Two years ago, he applied for a job at Fillmore Linen Service, a commercial laundry in North Lawndale serving the healthcare industry. makes up a portion of the 168,000-square-foot Fillmore Center.
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