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Teen fatally shot at house party
June 14, 2010 - no commentsA 15-year-old boy was shot and killed after a bullet flew through an apartment window over the weekend.
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15-19, ABC local, African American, CPS, Englewood, gresham, gun violence, harper high school, june 2010, male, murder, no arrest, police involvement, street violence
Wounded: Stop the Violence
June 14, 2010 - no commentsVideo interviews of youth survivors of gun violence
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Father Plefger and Annette Nance-Holt interview
June 14, 2010 - 1 CommentFather Plefger and Annette Nance-Holt speak about their violence prevention efforts.
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Teen shot handing out anti-violence flyers
June 05, 2010 - no commentsA teenager was shot while he was reportedly handing out flyers for an anti-violence event. The shooting happened shortly after 5 p.m. Friday at 67th Street and Blackstone. Police say the 18-year old suffered a gunshot wound to the head.
The director of the Woodlawn Organization tells ABC7 Chicago that Johnathan Lee was working for her group. She says the flyers were for a week-long event sponsored by Ceasefire.
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15-19, African American, gun violence, male, south side, street violence
Cops: Dolton brothers tried to pimp teen girls
May 26, 2010 - no commentsTwin brothers from south suburban Dolton were ordered held on $100,000 bond after they were accused of pimping two teenage girls, authorities said. Cook County sheriff's police uncovered the operation where Myrelle and Tyrelle Lockett used Internet ads to pimp two teenage girls, ages 17 and 18, according to court documents.
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‘It shouldn’t be that easy’
May 25, 2010 - no commentsDepartment officials estimate that about two-thirds of the 1,200 inmates in the state's eight juvenile justice facilities have been diagnosed with a mental illness and that half the young men and nearly all the young women have thought about or attempted suicide before they enter the system.
While it may be impossible to eliminate all suicide risks behind bars, the state has failed to take simple steps to protect these teenagers from themselves.
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15-19, African American, criminal charges, drugs, family violence, fatherlessness, government involvement, gun violence, male, may 2010, mental illness, murder, non CPS, police involvement, poverty, prison industrial complex, suicide
5 arrested in Near North Red Line robbery
May 12, 2010 - no commentsPolice were questioning five people in the overnight robbery of a man on a Red Line train on the Near North Side in what was being investigated as a possible hate crime.
One of them had the victim's cell phone on him when Public Transportation Section officers arrested the four juveniles and an adult as they tried to leave the Grand Avenue subway station a little after midnight, police said.
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African American, chicago tribune, hate crime, Jewish, male, may 2010, near north side, police involvement, stealing, street violence
Success ‘up to you,’ teens told
May 08, 2010 - no commentsWhen Dorian Boyland was growing up in South Shore, he joined a gang, the former Pittsburgh Pirates baseball player turned multimillionaire auto dealer confessed.
Seeing he was headed for trouble, his single mother sent him away to live with his grandmother.
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Bloody Urban Landscapes
May 07, 2010 - 1 CommentDriving through some of this city’s neighborhoods is like driving through an alternate, horrifying universe, a place where no one thinks it’s safe to be a child.
You follow a map in which the coordinates are laid out in blood. Over there, in front of that convenience store, is where Fred Couch, 16, was shot to death last December. The Couch boy went to the same school, Christian Fenger Academy, as Derrion Albert, an honor student who was beaten with wooden planks and kicked to death three months earlier in a broad daylight attack that was recorded on a cellphone by an onlooker.
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15-19, African American, church involvement, community involvement, CPS, drugs, family violence, fatherlessness, fenger high school, gang violence, gun violence, murder, New York Times, north west side, Prologue Early College High, south side
The Power of Words
April 21, 2010 - no commentsTamara Lynch didn't perform in a local poetry slam contest last Wednesday for the money or the guaranteed job offered at a West Side McDonald¡¦s restaurant.
The Austin Business and Entrepreneurship Academy student did it because she enjoys writing poetry.
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15-19, African American, Austin, Austin Weekly News, Chicago, chicago suburbs, community involvement, CPS, december 2009, East Garfield, gang violence, urban prep charted academy for young men, west side, youth voices