Even if you’ve never set foot in Chicago in your entire life, chances are that you’ve heard of Englewood, the notorious South Side neighborhood that has become the nationwide symbol of gangs and urban violence. It’s one of the Chicago neighborhoods that makes up what is better known as… (here it comes)… "Chiraq".
But what a lot of people don’t know, or refuse to believe, is that the violence was actually much worse there almost 20 years ago. Today, shootings and other violent acts are literally down more than half of what they were during the 90’s when no one was paying attention.
Even the local media had a policy of NOT reporting about murders and other…
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