3‚839 people have been shot in Chicago from January to November of 2016. This makes Chicago’s most pressing issue violence. Violence has to be stopped in order for Chicago’s other problems to stop. As violence worsens‚ many other problems erupt such as poverty‚ lack of education‚ gang activity‚ child abuse‚ and police brutality. Gangs are one of the most common causes of violence in Chicago‚ and finding a way of reducing gang activity would be a great start to get rid of violence. With violence comes
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Chicago Gun Violence Chicago is always in the news nationwide and some people might wonder why. Chicago is well known for its crime. The city has been struggling with this problem for a while. The biggest problem that plagues Chicago is its gang and gun violence because too many people are dying due to it. Chicago has alarmingly high statistics when it comes to gun violence in comparison to other major cities. Although the crime rate is slowly dropping‚ too many teenagers and young children
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Chicago has become one of the largest cities in the United States‚ ranking the third largest in 2012. Housing nearly 2.7 million civilians‚ it has shown exponential growth throughout the century and is now an icon for metropolitan cities (Largest). However‚ modern day Chicago is drastically different from its past. This topic has been widely researched to discover what molded Chicago into the city is it today. Numerous books‚ articles‚ and other publications discuss several possibilities of this
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The Changes of Chicago Today‚ there are many large and prodigious cities located in the United States. The city of Chicago‚ also known as the windy city‚ is one of the bigger cities in the states.. In the years 1857-1874‚ The city of Chicago developed in its transportation‚ construction of buildings‚ and in methods of transportation. Within the map of 1857‚ Chicago was beginning to show signs of growth in the population and also in the methods of transportation. At the time‚ transportation
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1. New Story: Oral Read aloud of “A Fly Went By.” a. Prior Knowledge: Last time‚ I worked with Nealy was in the summertime. So we talked about the difference between summer and spring. We made a “T-Chart” about with the difference between the two seasons. Since I showed Nealy the title of the story. One of the first things Nealy talked about are the flies and mosquitoes in the summer. Nealy talked about how she hates bugs particular the flies and mosquitoes because they just a pain. b. During the
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Chicago theory of crime was founded in 1920‚ and has been referred to as “Social disorganization theory” (Bohm‚ 2011). The Department of Sociology attempted to identify __Environmental factor associated with crime __How a specific neighborhood’s crime related to that neighborhood’s characteristics (Bohm‚ 2011). This was the United States 1st large-scale study done to explain why crime occurs and became the platform for many future studies (Bohm‚ 2011). Chicago School earned a reputation as the
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breast cancer.”22 She feels that such a class would ideally be as interactive as possible‚ with a variety of guest speakers to attest to the powers of black women.23 Although The Chicago Defender doesn’t take a stance within the article‚ it publishing such a piece alone is telling. Between these three articles‚ The Chicago Defender takes a strong stance advocating for more black women to involve themselves in the Women’s Liberation Movement. They feel that
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101-020 April 4‚ 2012 Girl Fight: Savagery in The Chicago Suburbs Summary of an Article and Reaction The article “Girl Fight: Savagery in The Chicago Suburbs” written by Susannah Meadows and Dirk Johnson‚ and published in May of 2003 by Newsweek still arouses controversy and shivers‚ especially for parents who have children that sooner or later will be attending high school. Not only the privileged Glenbrook North in Chicago suburbs in particular‚ but what Newsweek called savagery
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Chicago Gangs‚ Then and Now with Solutions Nick Crot Marist High School Abstract This paper deals with gang violence in the city of Chicago since the beginning of time. It takes a deep look into the history of Chicago gangs and how they interact today. Also the past problems the City of Chicago made when dealing with gangs and the problems that gangs today have and how Chicago has the worst gang problem in the country. Also how gangs have turned themselves into big‚ and lucrative enterprises
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historical architectural art is the auditorium building of Chicago‚ which had been considered as one of the greatest leaps in the world of architecture and engineering during the nineteenth century. Although Chicago faced a dramatic misery in the year 1871 due to the great Chicago fire that destroyed most of the infrastructure of the city‚ this downfall acted as the initial point of the movement towards what’s known today as the large‚modern city of Chicago. After ten successful years of rebuilding damages
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