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October, 2007
She had lived in the second-floor apartment at 66th Street and South Parnell Avenue for almost six months, but Paulette Bonaparte still didn't like sleeping in the bedroom. It was at the back of the house, overlooking the Metra tracks and a patch of land filled with overgrown weeds and trees. It resembled a small forest preserve, and Paulette had forbidden her three young children from playing...
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October, 2007
Last year, the young, brown-skinned man with the scar across his forehead asked for her phone number. Later, he tried to get her into his car.
He must have been watching her, she figured. How else could he have known she would be leaving for school around 7 a.m. that day? Suddenly he was there, walking next to her, putting his arm across her shoulders. He tightened his hold and put something...
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October, 2007
Every day for about two years, 16-year-old Darius Harris hung out with friends around an abandoned building near Marquette Road and South Parnell Avenue, a few doors north of his home. One day last summer, he recalled, a truck pulled up and a relative of Ryan Harris handed out fliers with a photograph of the missing girl. Darius had never seen her.
A few days later, on July 28, Darius walked...
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October, 2007
The sun reflecting off their bright red construction hats, about 50 teens from three South Side public housing developments started work on July 1–"many of them for the first time.
"This year, we are pushing the envelope," Phillip Jackson, chief executive officer for the Chicago Housing Authority, said as he kicked off the city's summer jobs program at the Ida B.Wells development. "What we...
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October, 2007
The federal summer jobs program is a child of the civil rights movement of the 1960s. In 1963, police were spraying tear gas on demonstrators in Savannah, Ga., using electric cattle prods on protesters in Gadsden, Ala., and turning police dogs and fire hoses on African American children in Birmingham, Ala., according to Henry Hampton and Steve Fayer's "Voices of Freedom, An Oral History of the...
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October, 2007
In an Uptown storefront on the North Side, campaign volunteers smoked cigarettes, sipped beer and celebrated a victory over an opponent who touted her endorsement by Mayor Richard M. Daley. At a Woodlawn beauty salon on the South Side, another group shook red-and-white pompoms in their triumph over City Hall.
But their bloodshot eyes revealed how hard they had worked.
In the 5th Ward,...
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September, 2007
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September, 2007
While other whites threw bricks at the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. during his 1966 march through Marquette Park, Joe Kulys stayed home. Kulys, now 56, recalled that he and the other alumni at St. Rita High School learned to follow their friars' instructions to pray for an end to violence.
Much has changed in this Southwest Side neighborhood since then. Black and Latino families moved into...
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September, 2007
Sixteenth Ward Alderman Shirley A. Coleman remembers when some used to call her South Side community "the murder capital of the world." Sixty-eight people were killed in the 7th Police District in 1989, the first year of Mayor Richard M. Daley's administration. That number jumped to 91 the next year, then 99.
In 1993, Daley launched the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy as a pilot...
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