The increasing violence has left its largest scars in some of the city’s most impoverished, struggling neighborhoods on the South and West Sides.
Rate Of Killings Rises 38 Percent In Chicago In 2012
By MONICA DAVEY, New York Times
Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:19am
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