Discover opens new customer care center in Chatham

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Discover opens new customer care center on Chicago's South Side

On Monday, Discover held the grand opening of its brand-new customer care center and community center on Chicago’s South Side.

On Monday, Discover held the grand opening of its brand-new customer care center and community center on Chicago’s South Side.

For the Chatham neighborhood, it was a milestone.

"Investing in neighborhoods on the South and West side that have historically been disinvested in, it's not charity. It's good business," Mayor Lori Lightfoot said.

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Discover says the center will employ one-thousand people from South and West side neighborhoods by next year.

Mayor Lightfoot says the INVEST South/West initiative accounts for $1.4 billion, and the sum of investments will be $2 billion by the end of the year.