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41) Death Toll
Since 1999, the year before the Chicago Housing Authority launched its Plan for Transformation, the number of occupied units in the CHA has declined 37 percent, and serious crimes have fallen nearly 48 percent overall. However, in that time, the number of people shot and killed at CHA developments has risen by 14 percent. The rate of firearm deaths per 1,000 occupied units in the CHA has nearly doubled, from 1.3 in 1999 to 2.3 in 2003.
Published: July, 2004

42) Dangerous Destinations
More than 2,500 people were killed in Chicago from 1999 through 2002. Many of those murders occurred on the South and West sides where the Chicago Housing Authority has most often relocated its former residents. Among them are South Shore, Roseland and Englewood---three neighborhoods that totaled 55 murders in 1998 and 75 in 2003, a 36 percent increase. Citywide, homicides dropped 15 percent during that time.
Published: July, 2004

43) Murder Capitol
The murder rate in Chicago, which led all U.S. cities in homicides in both 2001 and 2003, has declined slightly during the last four years. The city’s rate remains nearly three times the rate in New York but lower than the rate in other large cities in the Midwest. Of cities with a population of 100,000 or more, Gary, Ind., had the highest murder rate in the country, while Madison, Wis., was among those with the lowest rates.
Published: July, 2004

44) Moving at Their Own Risk By: Brian J. Rogal and Beauty Turner See More Stories by this author.
The redevelopment of public housing creates new dangers.
Published: July, 2004

45) Risk Factors By: Sarah Karp See More Stories by this author.
A patron of a bowling alley is so disturbed when he sees a boy getting hit and kicked by a man that he calls police. Staff members at a public health clinic are alarmed after overhearing a girl’s father order her, in Spanish, to tell the doctor that her black eyes were the result of falling down the stairs.
Published: June, 2004

46) Cut Short By: Sarah Karp See More Stories by this author.
DCFS says it shouldn’t be held responsible for
children who die under its watch, but its own inspector general wonders if these lives had to be cut short.
Published: June, 2004

49) Armed and Dangerous By: Rupa Shenoy See More Stories by this author.
Faced with more attacks against them, police are killing increasing numbers of Chicagoans.
Published: January, 2004

50) Dreams Deferred by Drug Use By: Chloé Mister and Cyril Mychalejko See More Stories by this author.
Even with the help of supportive programs, the journey of drug recovery often includes setbacks and detours through the criminal justice system.
Published: July, 2002

53) West Side Residents Battle Drug War Realities By: Alden K. Loury See More Stories by this author.
For most, the stories of drug trafficking are documented in 30- and 60-second stories on the evening news. But for others, like Allie Pack, the drama unfolds 24 hours a day in front of her Humboldt Park home.
Published: May, 2002

55) Drug Arrests Nab Minorities By: Alden K. Loury See More Stories by this author.
Though blacks, whites and Latinos have similar rates of drug use, four out of five people arrested for drugs in Chicago were black, and most of those arrests took place in poor, minority police districts.
Published: March, 2002

58) The Making of a Gangbanger By: Tim Bush, Ellyn M. Ong, Micah Holmquist and Sarah Karp See More Stories by this author.
In Maplewood Park on Chicago’s Northwest Side, Reymundo Sanchez, who had recently started hanging out with members of the Latin Kings street gang, was asked if he wanted to look for members of a rival gang called the Vicelords. He naively agreed, and was soon handed a sawed-off shotgun. Minutes later, he performed his first hit. He was 14.
Published: January, 2002