In a time when many preachers, teachers and police officers do not live in the neighborhood that they work in, Pastor Corey Brooks decided with his wife years ago that they would raise their children in Woodlawn, one of the toughest neighborhoods on the South Side of Chicago. With his talents and charisma, he could easily headline a megachurch in one of Chicago’s affluent suburbs. However, the pastor knew, in the words of President Theodore Roosevelt, that "people don’t care about how much you know until they know how much you care."
