King Dr. He was taken to a hospital in critical condition. James Rufus is a butcher at the Parkway Super Market. Things will have to improve a lot more before he feels safe.
A man in a hooded sweatshirt followed him out of the supermarket, pulled a gun and shot him in the head outside Parkway Gardens.
The nephew survived but was left paralyzed. He got out of the hospital in September and now needs a wheelchair to get around. Rufus says he thinks a gang member from Woodlawn, east of King Drive, shot his nephew, mistaking him for a rival.
Things still need to change. When Michelle Obama was a baby, her family lived on O Block, in Parkway Gardens, the complex of 35 buildings that stretches from 63rd to 66th along King Drive. Over the years, Parkway Gardens became a haven for gangs. These days, the police say, the Black Disciples control both sides of King Drive and Parkway Gardens, and the rival Gangster Disciples claim the neighborhood of single-family homes to the east. The gangs fuel their antagonism online in character bursts on Twitter and in rap songs uploaded to YouTube.
Often, it carries over into real life. The dismantling of a nearby Chicago Housing Authority high-rise complex also figures into the calculus of crime on the block. Many of those gang members moved about three blocks away, to the low-rise Parkway Gardens apartments, which are privately managed and cater to low-income tenants. You have to watch yourself more these days.
Another, the mother of a young daughter, says that when she wants the girl to be able to play outdoors, she takes her to a park on the Southwest Side because of the frequent gunfire outside her apartment in Parkway Gardens. The police do be around, but, I mean, crime still goes on. I would take him to a far-out, better neighborhood to let him play. Gave an inch they took a yard.
In the winter of , the Rev. Corey Brooks became famous as the pastor on the roof when he camped out for months on top of a boarded-up motel nearby, in the block of South King Drive, to draw national attention to the rampant gunfire in the neighborhood.
But gang factions continue to battle there, he says, with homemade rap videos posted online often fueling the violence. When you eliminate all those things from a community — men not in the household and education failing — it will be a drastic difference than what the first lady of the United States and her family experienced. Tracy, the police crime-control strategy chief, says O Block remains one of his major challenges.
These tactics, based on the research of Yale sociologist Andrew Papachristos, have been effective elsewhere around the city, the police say. The hotel desk clerk was O-Blocking us about checkout while we were getting it on in the spa. Chock o' block. An airport that is completely filled and when the ATC can't be bothered to let your plane land.
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