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Cook County Community YMCA is part of the childcare puzzle

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The Cook County Community YMCA has caught up with its waiting list of families needing childcare--for now.
The Cook County Community YMCA has caught up with its waiting list of families needing childcare--for now.

In WTIP’s ongoing series, Childcare Challenges in Cook County, we’ve been talking to the people involved in local childcare, such as Cook County Community YMCA Director Emily Marshall.

We learn a lot in this interview about how childcare became an offering for the local YMCA and about the operation of the childcare area.

This is part 1 of our discussion with Marshall, focusing on existing conditions for childcare at the Y.

Here’s WTIP’s Rhonda Silence and Emily Marshall, talking about childcare.  
 

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