Gwendolyn Moore, the mother of an unarmed man shot and killed by Chicago police officers after a neighborhood car chase, poses for a photo outside her Englewood home, wearing a jacket that belonged to her slain son, Jamaal.
A home sits empty in Chicago’s Englewood neighborhood. Vacant, boarded-up homes and apartment buildings have piled up by the thousands, following the housing market collapse that began with predatory mortgage lending.
Pamela Bosley stands in front of St. Sabina Catholic Church in Auburn Gresham, where she works with at-risk youth. In 2006, her 18-year- old son, Terrell, was gunned down by a drive-by shooter in a church parking lot in Roseland.
Pamela Bosley grips a laminated, 8-by-10 photograph of her late son, Terrell. The photo was taken at his high school prom, less than a year before his death.
A squad car keeps tabs at the corner of Roosevelt Road and Springfield Avenue, months after police wound down an undercover sting aimed at snuffing out an open-air drug market. Chicago Police Sgt. Daniel Allen described the volume of drug sales that took place at the North Lawndale corner as “incredible.”
Jemarco Baldon, 17, was arrested for allegedly selling $80 worth of heroin to undercover police officers during a sting and was put on house arrest. More 17-year-olds were arrested on potential felony charges in Chicago than in any other city nationwide.
A modular classroom at the now-shuttered Guggenheim Elementary School in Englewood sits in disrepair. The school was one of four small elementary schools closed in 2012, displacing 467 students. The 50 schools slated to be closed in 2013 will affect about 46,000 students.
Destiny Johnson’s three daughters enter the family’s home in Auburn Gresham, one of the 10 communities in Chicago with the highest number of youth homicides. Between 2008 and 2012, 41 people younger than 25 were killed in the neighborhood.
Judy Watkins, the mother of slain infant Jonylah Watkins, mourns during a vigil in the Woodlawn neighborhood. The 6-month-old girl was shot with her father while in a parked car on the 6500 block of South Maryland Avenue.
Pallbearers carry the remains of 6-month-old Jonylah Watkins after her funeral service at New Beginnings Church in Woodlawn.