Holiday dinner served at Life Changing Community Outreach center in Austin ahead of Thanksgiving [Video]

CHICAGO (WLS) — Thanksgiving is still five days away, but an early holiday dinner was served up Saturday afternoon at a West Side community center to those in the neighborhood.

Forget the buffet-style meal though. Inside the unassuming headquarters for the Life Changing Community Outreach center in Austin, waiters with menus took orders from guests as they arrived and were seated at their individual tables.

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“Restaurant-style. A lot of people in the community have never been to a sit-down restaurant,” Life Changing Community Outreach CEO and founder Ivette McKinne said. “We want to bring that unity back with the family, where they are able to just come and enjoy a meal on LCCO and just have a conversation.”

Over 200 meals were carefully served to those wishing to partake, including a choice of main, side and dessert.