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not all of it has been pleasant. >> mayor rahm emanuel is an advocate for gay rights and same-sex marriage and takes pride in his role as cheer leader in chief on parade day. chicago has a long history of being at the center for the struggle for equality and the quest for the american dream. not all of it has been pleasant. >> i have never seen even in mississippi and alabama the mobs of hate as i've seen in chicago. >> in 1966, martin luther king jr. took a rock to the head while leading a protest.

rahm was there when he was 7 years old with his two brothers and mother marsha. 12 years later, the neonazi party returned for a white power rally. that's rahm emanuel, young, shirtless, and not afraid to confront neonazis and skinheads. >> can you please get out of here? >> now as mayor, he's turned his attention to what some people call the new civil rights movement, the fight to reform public education. >> this is a huge day for us, because 100% of our seniors have been admitted to college. when you graduate, move back here because i want you back in the city, okay? i'm very proud of you. >> there's an intense debate over the best way to improve inner city schools. and he makes it a point to shine a light on success schools like

this charter school, irvin prep academy. >> i want everybody in this city, i want everybody in this country to look right up here. i want them to look up here and i want them and all the cynics that have told these young men, their parents, their teachers, their principals, not you. not your zip code. not who you are. what this 100% proves, beyond a doubt, is it need not be the exception but it should be the expectation for every child in the city of chicago. >> over at fenger, principal dozier also is committed to giving her kids a chance at a better future. >> you guys look so cute. oh, my god! one, two, three, take like three or four.

>> unlike charter schools, fenger high accepts all students. >> so at this time, i would like our 100th graduating class to turn your tassels from left to right. you have officially graduated from high school. >> fenger's graduation rate is 50%, which is an improvement from 2012. in 2013, more students are also going to college, but liz knows there's much more work to be done. >> my brain is already in next year. i wrapped this up three months ago. now i'm thinking where are we headed to and how are we going to get there? a lot of what we're going to into next year, we have this little budget, we have to put more expectations on the kids. if you set high expectations with no support, you're setting people up for failure. people can't do that. they need support. >> it's going to be a hard year next year. it's going to be hard. >> before she thinks about the budget crisis, liz worries about

the summer. it's the most dangerous time of the year for her students. >> i used to love the summer. i'm a beach bum. i love like the hot, the sun. just the whole idea of summer. once i became the principal of the school, i just started to hate summer. i've lost kids over the summer. i've had kids hurt and shot over the summer. i hate the summer. i can't wait for the [ bleep ] to be over. >> in certain parts of chicago, it's not just summer. it's shooting season. >> very violent weekend here in chicago. >> more violence breaks out in chicago's streets. at least eight people died and 46 hurt. >> person shot. >> inside the police department's crime fighting nerve center, everyone is on high alert. >> there's an eighth victim. >> what do you do for the summer months? do you send police to hot spots? >> there's a lot of work that needs to be done.

>> there's enormous pressure on the superintendent. he focuses on gathering street level intel and analyzing crime data to better target warring gang factions responsible for most of the city's violence. >> you've got to jack it up and get these guys motivated, have them putting their hands on people and destroy that gang. >> mccarthy never stops crunching the numbers. >> the only thing we're up in is the murders. obviously 20, versus 15 last year. we've got to take a look at that and what we're doing to stay on top of it.

>> is casey working in this place or am i having a stroke? >> here's the tragic reality of chicago's murder statistics. more than three quarters of the victims are black. in a city from african-americans make up a third of the population. >> he's going to be truly missed. >> yes, he, is lord jesus. >> this is the street where the kid was shot at. so we might just go house to house. >> you can see down into the street from the second floor. >> sometimes as a journalist, going into bad neighborhoods, you text people where you are in case you go missing. my mom has asked me to do that before. one of the main things i go is this project called the human toll where we profile every single murder victim in the city.

usually when a little girl gets killed, that gets a lot of coverage and everyone else gets ignored. but we cover everyone. >> right before they killed him, he just asked me for $5 and told me he wasn't coming home tonight. >> when they do have media come, they're pretty happy to have us there after a while, because they feel like no one else pays attention to them. >> those are all my questions. anything else you wanted to add? >> i interviewed a 6-year-old boy because he really wanted to be interviewed, and that was the saddest thing today. >> he said he was his best big cousin and they used to play basketball together and now he's really sad. congratulations. >> thank you. >> that's a big deal. okay. well, thank you.

>> as night falls, violence spikes and some victims get rushed to the cook county trauma unit where they do work that saves lives. >> it's friday night. cook county trauma unit. so far we have three shootings, a bunch of motor vehicle crashes. this place can go from zero to 60 quickly. >> treating multiple gunshot victims is just another night on the job. >> july 1st is the day new residents start. look at the way that needle is loaded, george. why are you making life so hard on yourself? >> some people call it the most dangerous time in the hospital. quite possibly is. >> george, watch that needle. you have almost harpooned him like three times. >> sometimes when you're kooked up in the hospital, you have to get a breath of fresh air. chicago is going through a tough time right now.

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it's festival season and chitown is pulsing with energy. >> i wanted to do like just a short, but then i thought maybe -- >> i wasn't doing anything funny. >> i can't fart and run. i've got to slow down and taste my food. >> show some love for your partner. >> chicago is the place to be if you want to get started in comedy. bill murray, dan ackroyd, john candy, martin short. that legacy lives on today with people like tina fey and stephen colbert. chicago is funny. >> back at city hall, the mayor has jokes of his own.

>> you look on your desk and it's just a plate of dog -- and everybody is trying to convince me it's a plate of ice cream. >> before the holiday, mayor manuel goes to one of his favorite events. >> present arms! >> please raise your right hand. >> the mayor presides over a naturalization ceremony, where immigrants from 32 countries take the oath of allegiance to become american citizens. >> let me be the first to congratulate you as our newest u.s. citizens. >> i happen to think the city of chicago is the most american of american cities, because it is a city of immigrants. i would love for everybody in the united states congress that is thinking today about immigration reform to look out and see what i see from this vantage point, the hopes, the

dreams, the aspirations, the sacrifice, the struggle to embrace we who have been born here take for granted. >> my grandfather runs his first real apartment in albany apartment, which i years later represented in congress. >> albany park is one of chicago's most ethnically diverse neighborhoods. more than 40 languages are spoke here.

most neighbors hail from mexico or guatemala, eastern europe and the middle east. >> they're not going to see their dad. >> i'll come back. >> the theater performs plays based on the true stories of neighborhood folks. many of the young actors are from families of recent immigrants. >> i love to see it didn't hold me back, but there's times you're looking where the hell you're going to be in the future. and if you will be successful for your children. >> my mom is from mexico and my dad is from colombia. i became an activist. i learned what it was to be undocumented and what was against you when you're undocumented.

there are families everywhere that risk their lives for their children. >> this summer, their new play homeland hits the big time with a run at the historic goodman theater. >> the changes to the fabric of this country is not going to come from congress or city hall. it's going to come from you. >> hey, mr. peters, how are you? >> principal liz dozier doesn't take summers off. >> so it's not a good time. that's why these summer jobs we're doing and these programs that are coming i'm trying to get kids connected to them. so they're not victims of crime. >> liz keeps fenger open so her kids always have a safe place to go during roseland's violent summers. >> security, just a reminder,

there's going to be 50 to 60 students coming to the culinary arts. >> can i get a hug? >> darren smith just graduated from fenger. >> how are you, sir? >> liz introduces him to a restauranteur who offers him a summer job at the airport. >> all set? >> yeah. >> it's 4:00 in the morning, as darius starts his commute to o'hare airport. >> got to get on the red line to jackson and jackson all the way to o'hare. i live in the edenwood area. i'm in and out. i don't hang out on the streets. there's nobody that i know in the community. i have no friends. >> i was about 4, 5 years old and i would see my aunty in the kitchen. i would just always run in the kitchen and find out what's going on in there.

i was like, can i help out with this? she was like, yeah, sure. i knew that was the career i wanted to go to. actually my goal right now that i have set for myself is open my own restaurant by age 25, call it the pleasure palate. >> over in little italy, they get ready at cook county's trauma unit. >> i was helping out some guy getting beat up and i got stab. pain just hit me. other than that, i don't feel no pain anymore. >> he got you pretty good, huh? >> yeah. >> we're going to get this sewn up. >> can i make one call? >> yeah. this ain't jail. you get more than one phone call. >> dr. dennis heads home to spend time with his two kids and wife, who also is a doctor. >> i was able to put my head

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♪ every fourth of july, folks from all over chicago pack the lakefront to celebrate. ♪ >> how cool is this? >> fishing poles and i got my 15 on. >> still apprehensive ant the summer, liz tries to relax out on a boat with her friends and big fenger supporter billy deck. >> look at these guys. this guy is just like buy, sell, buy, sell. have the helicopter drop lunch. someone was telling me how many of the kids that have not made it to the lake, to downtown. >> that was probably me. >> that blows my mind. there's actually kids that haven't been to lincoln park or been to wrigley field or haven't been to the beach.

>> there's so much that's still possible for our kids, just giving them the resources they need to help them realize those things. >> while liz and billy enjoy the lake, over in albany park, kids celebrate the fourth with a picnic at jp's house. >> we came here like every other person that comes here. we want to better our life. we figure it's here. >> there is just something about this place that i believe is magical. my mom, everything that she did was so that i could be going to school and doing everything she couldn't do. >> liliya is an american born citizen. jp was born in the philippines but raised in the u.s. >> it makes you a better person, yet it holds you back, you know what i mean?

>> at any time, jp could be deported. it's going to be a long weekend, and chicago's first responders are on high alert. >> historically, fourth of july, as soon as the sun goes down, it should be pretty busy. you never know what's going to happen. ♪ >> amid all the fireworks, four people got killed. police are on the move looking

for the triggermen. >> he's hiding in there, go in the basement. >> what kind of gun is it? >> it was a black gun. the last words i heard him say, man, i'll take your life and mine. >> how many shots did we hear? >> how many shots? >> late friday night, a young man on his front porch has to run for his life when men spill out of a car and start shooting. >> 24-year-old male, one gunshot wound. >> jeremiah millsap is shot and badly wounded and rushed to the trauma unit where dr. dennis is on duty. >> we're going to help you out, all right. tell us what happened. >> i don't know. >> does he have another hole? >> yes. >> he's got two holes. all right, we're here for you, buddy. keep talking to us, okay? >> open your eyes. talk to me.

>> o positive. >> we're closing out, we're getting the hell out of here. so far we've saved him. oh, my god, that case hurt. let's see what happens. >> in the summer, this is the norm. this is not the exception, it's the rule. >> a violent holiday across chicago, more than 20 shot, including 5 and 7-year-old boys. >> how are you? good. i just wondered if i could get information on two overnight incidents, one shooting and one stabbing. all right, do you have the ages on them?

okay, but you do know that the one male is in critical? >> what's the matter? what's going on? >> several hours later, jeremiah has taken a turn for the worse. he's now in critical condition. >> charging. >> step back. >> clear. >> on july 6, jeremiah millsap died at 7:31 a.m. >> i actually thought this kid might live.

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on our ability to bring tourism into the city of chicago, because people are flying here from everywhere. people are recognizing that's not just food, that's not just dinner, that's art. >> an experience like this is typically beyond the means of liz dozier and her students. but a ben factor gives them a graduation factor, dinner at one of chicago's top restaurants, millennium. >> darius this could open up his entire world. >> that's my first time tasting caviar. >> just amazing, just to have that experience with the students. i think almost every course it was just something new that none

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man, lord be with them. >> chicago's bloody holiday weekend made national news. >> violent fourth of july holiday weekend. since wednesday afternoon, more than 70 wounded by gunfire. a dozen dead. >> it's also topic number one on local talkradio. >> over 1,000 people have been shot in chicago this year. over a thousand people. do you think that many people have been shot in afghanistan? >> you've got a culture of shooting and guns all over the streets in chicago. >> representative davis, you have come out and said that the national guard needs to have a presence on the streets on the south and west sides of chicago. >> i consider chicago being a state of civil unrest creating a crisis for all of us. >> rahm emanuel ran for mayor on a pledge to make chicago's streets safer. after the holiday, reporters grill him about all the homicides that plagued the city over the weekend. >> gun control, when you look to public safety, is the weak link in the chain of public safety for the city of chicago. and we had a stark reminder of

that this weekend. the police are doing an effective job but need to do better. >> the weekend body count puts a lot of heat on superintendent mccarthy. >> in regards to the shootings and murders that happened this weekend, are you certain you still enjoy the mayor's confidence to combat violence? >> i'm absolutely confident. we're enjoying about a 25% reduction in shootings. but unfortunately, and as sure as we're standing here, we're going to have tragedies. i don't know what to say about it anymore. >> still on call, dr. dennis learns about where jeremiah millsap was murdered. >> so he got shot on ucs campus? >> yeah.

>> he's just off campus. that's where they live, i guess. >> unbelievable. >> jeremiah millsap was chicago's 200th homicide victim in 2013. following up on the murder -- >> my name is erica. i'm sorry for your loss. i just want to say is what we do is write profiles of people murdered in the city so people can know who they are, so it's not just like another number, another shooting. so if you would be interested. i would just like to talk more about jeremiah. there is all my contact info and there is the website. >> okay, thank you. >> he was a good person.

he was a real good person. he was just out with his kids on the fourth of july, and they was doing their thing. he loved his kids. >> just like a group out here, like friday night, hanging out. people come up and start shooting for no reason. >> no reason. >> you didn't know him? >> he was a family map, with a great heart, with a great heart. >> he's got the fatigues on there. was he in the military? >> he was in the navy, yeah. >> he was a boatswain's seaman, stationed on the "uss ronald reagan." he got a national defense medal, global war on terrorism medal, global war on terrorism expeditionary medal, sea service deployment ribbon.

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chiraq, that's all you know ant it. ain't nothing but love out here, baby, love. >> after the holiday, it's back to business. and liz has an appointment to see the mayor. >> how are you? >> mayor manuel says one of the sees to making schools better is giving principals like liz more power and responsibility. >> graduation rates look good? >> graduation was fantastic. we're looking at close to 90%. >> no! are you serious? >> yes. we've been really grinding away. we have 17 programs this summer, so we're a full house. >> anything else we need to do besides more money? >> you already know. >> this is a cash and carry business. i'm well aware. >> i think we're good. we're going to do i think well

regardless next year. we have some stuff in the hopper in terms of raising money, ratcheting down with the staff. everybody is going to have to carry a little bit more and the kids are counting on us. it's going to have to work. >> we'll get through this pension issue. >> despite the mayor's support, liz knows fenger's future remains uncertain. it's showtime for the albany park theater kids. today is especially emotional for liliya. after the show, she's off to college. >> i don't consider myself an actress, because it is really personal. something i just want to do for the rest of my life is teach and create communities like this everywhere i go. >> who wants to be an american, another undocumented immigrant.

>> we're kind of striving to reach people and give faces to an issue. >> i am undocumented. >> one of the things i hope they can see is what we are capable of as youth from chicago, from the city. >> as they chase the american dream, kids growing up in violent neighborhoods have to dodge bullets. in certain parts of chicago, the reality is, life on the streets can be deadlier than a war zone. >> i've went to so many funerals, it's ridiculous. it's just life. >> they call it chiraq. since 2003, more people were murdered in chicago than gis were killed in the gulf war. >> they've been in iraq and afghanistan and fought over them

for them to be killed in the street like an animal and it ain't right. it ain't right. >> family and friends gather for jeremiah millsap's funeral. >> we can't let his life, not his death, but we can't let his life be in vain, because he left to serve his country and his country may have betrayed him. >> he motivated a lot of the sailors on the ship. i will always thank him for that. even though he's not with the service anymore, he will always be our shipmate. >> i never thought it would hit this close to home. never thought i would be burying my husband at the sage of 25. we were all just out there as a family, talking, having fun. then shots was fired everywhere. everybody was screaming and running for their life. out the corner of my eye, i saw

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at the cook county trauma unit, dr. dennis learns more about the patient he couldn't save. >> i had never seen this article before. i didn't know the whole story. i wish i had never seen it. it's hard enough to separate all the tragedy and the humanity that goes along with this place. it just kind of gave me a sinking feeling in the pit of my stomach. kids growing up without their dad. it's just nauseating.

i was one of those cases where i thought we were going to win the battle and we end up losing it. i think for me, i have my ghosts. there are patients that i can, you know, flashback to the moments of seeing someone's life stuffed away. ♪ >> in the heart of posh lincoln park, darius drops by the restaurant. >> the place is so high class, they don't even got their name in front of it. this is one of the top ten restaurants in the world and it's great to work in a restaurant like this.

>> for you today, i just want you to see what we're doing and make sure the precision is there, get comfortable with the knife. >> my mother and father owned a diner in a very small town in michigan. at one point my sole job was to butter toast. that's all i did. >> is this all right? >> it's really rewarding as a chef to start from nothing and just work really hard and become successful. >> seeing where i'm at and where i need to be, i need to work a little bit harder. and that's what i plan to do, work harder. >> is this better? >> much better. >> in front of you is your future. different journeys. one future. america, the land of opportunity, and yet kids are growing up in parts of the city, there's no sense of life.

they can see downtown and yet for them it's miles and miles away. and i don't ever want a city that for some of our children they don't think they're part of that. >> one, two, three. [ applause ] >> you like that? >> that's exactly what i was looking for. >> rahm emanuel, mayor of chicago. >> how do you do, sir. >> nice to meet you. ♪ >> i'm going to college. ♪

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>> i wish someone would have given my dad the same support we're trying to give students at fenger. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good evening, everyone. it's 11:00 here on the east coast of the united states, 11:00 a.m. offhe