How do people live their lives each day surrounded by violence? How is it fair that city violence is breaking...
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Broken glass
As a young teen, Duan Gaines and his sisters would throw rocks at spare windows that were stored in their...
Media power
David Olson sees it splashed across the front pages every week: 2016 has been Chicago’s most violent year in two...
Chiraq
Chi-Raq. The most dangerous city in America. The murder capital of the United States. Titles like these make people think...
“It takes one bad police officer to make 13,000 officers look bad.”
Chicago Police Officer Gerardo Garcia was sitting in his patrol car in the southwest Chicago neighborhood of Englewood when he...
Bright minds, dark paths
On a breezy fall morning in Chicago, Destiny Rogers marched down the unevenly-paved Chicago streets to the Wilson CTA Red...
Mental gymnastics
When Dr. Venna Ramaiah gets home from a late night emergency room shift, she often only has a few hours...
Saving grace
Grace Donovan stares at the piles of case files spread across her office desk. She leads a busy life as...
Stop and think
Sunlight flowed through the windows of a fall-decorated classroom as Dion McGill entered. Excitement could be seen on each of...
Detention drop
Candace Moore is optimistic about the drop in suspension and expulsion rates in Chicago Public Schools, but worries that the...
SMART kids
Briana was a young, “nerdy” girl, who struggled to fit in with her classmates and often got made fun of...
Finding their VOYCE
One day during his sophomore year at Kelly High School in Chicago’s Brighton Park neighborhood, Carlil Pittman lagged behind in...
No detention, only stability
The house is getting noisier on a Monday afternoon. The kids have come home hungry from school. Snacks are handed...
Slam!
From a young age, Ireon Roach knew she wanted to slam poetry. As a second grader, she was stringing together...
Reaching out
When Rev. Brenda Adele Collins Sheriff was 16-years old, she was peacefully walking with her family at Rainbow Beach at...
No vacancy?
For five months, Henry Castillo called the Preston Bradley Center home. The shelter in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood housed the homeless...
Taking pride
Latonya Maley creates a striking figure as she strides through the halls of the Broadway Youth Center. In a tea-length...
Fierce faith
They came to Humboldt Park at a time when it was teeming with nuns and screaming with need. They moved...
One call away
Tiffiani Turner drives up from the South Side of Chicago every day to work her 7 a.m. shift at the...
Behind closed doors
What does Allison French, a social worker in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood, think the most common intrapersonal crime in Chicago is...
