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Street Corners: Cicero and Polk – Sharing Soul Food, Fellowship and Faith
by RYAN BLITSTEIN | Jan 22, 2010
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Police Struggle to Navigate New Gang Landscape
by RYAN BLITSTEIN | Nov 22, 2009
Almost a year from the day the Chicago Police Department unleashed a sweeping crackdown on gangs, its efforts crashed into stark reality Wednesday in a gritty area of the South Side that many in the neighborhood call “Kill Town.” Luis Garcia, 17, was standing at a memorial of stuffed animals, beer bottles and a wooden