Serving Poor Kids in a Wealthy Neighborhood

In the heart of Chicago’s Wicker Park neighborhood North Avenue Day Nursery (NADN) is trying to stay relevant and viable, providing care to children from low-income families, like they’ve always done, and by attracting the neighborhoods new, more affluent families.

“We’re still serving the low-income families that we always have,” said Executive Director of the nursery for the last 11 years, Steven Koll, “but by creating a blend of market-rate children with these other kids; we’re creating a unique blend, reflective of the wider-world.”