‘Raging’ Gang War on 79th St. is Destroying Business, Owners Say

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Time to put those gangs out of business.

“We must fight for our businesses and communities,” one owner said after Tyshawn Lee’s murder.

Why no war on gangs?

Source: ‘Raging’ Gang War on 79th St. is Destroying Business, Owners Say – Chatham – DNAinfo.com Chicago

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Jim Bowman covered religion 1968-78 for the Chicago Daily News, since then has written books, articles, etc., mostly on corporate history but also on religion (Company Man: My Jesuit Life, 1950-1968), and more recently on politics (Illinois Blues: How the Ruling Party Talks to Voters -- Lulu.com, Kindle). Longtime Oak Park, Illinois, resident, he lives now on Chicago's North Side, where four of his and Winnie's six children live close by.

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  1. How sad the lives of black businesses in Chatham don’t matter to the gangs, or to the city council and mayor.

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