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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.
A video shared on TikTok allegedly shows a Coca-Cola truck that was caught for sex trafficking children in Illinois. Verdict: False The video is miscaptioned and in reality shows an annual toy drive.
The name "vice" was chosen when a gang founder looked up the term and found the meaning as "having a tight hold". [9] [10] As the original Vice Lords group were released from incarceration, they quickly began to recruit other youths from their neighborhood and began engaging in conflicts with other "clubs" from various Chicago neighborhoods. [9]
In a December 16 Instagram post that received more than 190,000 likes, user Ernest Carter shared a video of a Coca-Cola delivery truck that he claimed was found "full of kids."
The new pilot is coming from Alarm.com, a company out of Washington, D.C., and they’re offering it to one specific Chicago neighborhood free of charge for six months. What happens after that six ...
By late July the Chicago Freedom Movement was staging regular rallies outside of Real Estate offices and marches into all-white neighborhoods on the city's southwest and northwest sides. The hostile and sometimes violent response of local whites, [ 14 ] and the determination of civil rights activists to continue to crusade for an open housing ...
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.