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Kids Off the Block (KOB) was a memorial of stones of young people killed by gun violence. The memorial was located in Chicago 's West Pullman neighborhood, with the mission "to provide at-risk low income youth positive alternatives to gangs , drugs , truancy , violence and the juvenile justice system."
Chicago Area Project (CAP) is an American juvenile delinquency prevention association based in Chicago, Illinois. The association has been acting since early 20th century. The project was founded by University of Chicago criminologist Clifford Shaw. As of 2009, its current executive director is David E. Whittaker.
Mercy Home began accepting girls in 1987. Three years later, it was renamed Mercy Home for Boys and Girls. Mercy Home is composed of two separate campuses where abused and neglected children are cared for—the Boys' Campus, located in Chicago's West Loop area, and the Girls' Campus, located south, in Chicago's Morgan Park community.
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A seven-year-old girl died and seven other people were wounded – including two young children – when shots were fired while they were standing outside at a family gathering in Chicago Saturday ...
Chicago police have yet to determine who left the child on top of the garbage can, although the family of Marlen Ochoa-Uriostegui, a missing 19-year-old high school student, believe the baby is hers.
A critique in the Du Bois Review (2004) by Arline Geronimus and J. Phillip Thompson calls the Moving to Opportunity study "politically naive". [11] Their study theorizes that moving a family into a higher income neighborhood might solve immediate, direct health risks (for example clean water, less crime) however the loss of social integration, stress factors, and racially influenced ...
Widespread and stark division lines drawn by gangs throughout Humboldt would prevent kids from walking through or going to various public locations. [3] Many of these youth came from parents who had also been members of gangs when they grew up in the neighborhood. [3] [14] In the mid-late 1980s, the neighborhood continued to evolve.