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March, 2013
It could have been Drew. That thought has been my personal preoccupation lately. I think often about my younger brother, who could have been a casualty of multiple wars—in Afghanistan, Iraq, and right at our back door—on the South Side of Chicago.Drew could be just another number, one of the 506 people killed in Chicago last year.On Dec. 31, Sgt. First Class Andrew N. Washington Jr. officially...
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February, 2013
For the last three and a half years, Ondelee Perteet has been fighting his own body. He was shot in the jaw in September 2009, the bullet severing his spine. The doctors diagnosed him a quadriplegic and said he’d never again be able to move anything below his neck.But Perteet has been winning one small battle after another. The movement of a finger on his left hand has led to the use of that...
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February, 2013
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January, 2013
Chicago has become America's homicide leader--and by plenty.In 2012, not only did Chicago lead the nation in homicides, it witnessed nearly 100 more murders than New York City, even though the Big Apple has three times as many residents. And Chicago witnessed 215 more murders than Los Angeles--home to more than a million more people.But Chicago’s homicide epidemic is a youth homicide epidemic--...
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