How One Group of Moms Is Keeping the Peace on One of Chicago’s Most Violent Street Corners [JJIE.org]

Samantha Sangenito 8/24/1512:00 PM

Safety is what everyone we talk to in Englewood wants — safety and respect from the police. They are not willing to settle for a false choice of one or the other.

On June 29, Mothers Against Senseless Killings (MASK) took a novel approach to countering bloodshed in the South Side Chicago neighborhood of Englewood, the setting of Spike Lee’s forthcoming film “Chiraq” and an area the media calls “violent,” “troubled” and “murderous.”

Six days earlier, a shooting on the corner of 75th and Stewart had killed one woman and injured two others.

[For more of this story, written by Lillian Osborne and Jessica Stites, go to http://jjie.org/how-one-group-...reet-corners/127590/]

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