station. the u.s. navy should get an aircraft carrier down there right away. >> that's all for us tonight. "chicagoland" starts right now. cnn's original series "chicagoland" is proudly presented by alstate. are you in good hands? previously on "chicagoland" -- >> the city of chicago is the most american of american cities. >> ain't nothing but love out here. >> more than a thousand people have been shot in chicago this country. >> the whole country is watching chicago at the tipping point. >> am i having a stroke? >> in the summer, this is not the exception, this the rule. >> i've had kids shot in the

summer. i can't wait for [ bleep ] to be over. >> every summer, young people flock to chicago for some of the best music festivals in the world. even the mayor squeezes a concert or two into his busy schedule. >> i'm going to be in town, right? >> and yes, rahm did find some time to get down at the taste of chicago. the summer concert season crescendos with lollapalooza. >> say chicago. >> chicago. >> chicago. >> chicago. >> for chance, leading up to his lollapalooza debut, there's a lot at stake. >> my entire reputation as an

artist, my reputation in chicago as a music movement, my finances, my pride. >> maybe chance could take a few pointers from this guy. >> chicago has something to offer. it's so much talent here. chance the rapper is building himself up by his artistry, his work. >> hip-hop star common grew up in the same neighborhood as chance. now that he's made it big, he refuses to turn his back on his hometown. >> it's an honor to be in chicago. the place i'm most proud to say that i'm from. because this city is so beautiful, the city is so powerful. the city is so soulful. i know what chicago has done to shape me, to culture me. and to develop me. what goes along with that is a responsibility. >> for young people, chicago is a city of two summers. one is a celebration, and the

other has too many funerals. >> we haven't had the same success recently that we had earlier in the year. but the shooting incidents are still going in the right direction. >> july got off to a bloody start. but by mid month, the chicago police department has the city back on track to a safer summer than 2012. to stay on track, he's counting on all the help he can get from city youth programs that keep kids off the street. >> everywhere i go, people know about the violence that's been going on with chicago. our youth always ask, well, what are you doing to stop the violence? i always suggest programs, programs like what we do with common ground. >> common and magic johnson each have mentoring programs aimed at helping at-risk kids in chicago. >> we have graduating classes and we have students in college already. >> many pro sports stars have programs for kids, like dwyane wade. >> i think people deserve second

chances. we only got one life to live and none of us know when that departure date is coming. so go out here and try to be special. >> nba legend isiah thomas grew up in chicago and now he's back aiming to kids on the court and out of trouble. >> 95% of our community, they're good kids and good people trying to do the right thing. there's a small 5% that we talk about, we read about and hear about, but what you don't hear about is the violence that is stopped before it happened. >> hey, nice to see you. if this wasn't here tonight, what would you be doing? >> i don't even know, to tell you the truth. >> this is the greatest job i've ever had. i could use a break, but it's nonstop 24-7, but it's the greatest job i've ever had. but there are days you see a 5-year-old shot.

they are looking at guys in jail. i'm like what the [ bleep ] are you doing? >> after a windy city hoops game, there was one kid who caught the mayor's attention. >> i was at columbus park playing basketball and i got a chance to meet the mayor of basketball. he said hi, and i just got to talking to him general conversation, like how did he get to be the mayor. >> i got talking to this young man, martell. he was so engaging. >> he just asked me where i was going. i told him i was going home and he said he would take me home. >> he's a wonderful kid. there's something about his personality, and i'm taken with it. i'm trying to help him knuckle down and buckle down for college. >> now martell works in the mayor's office where he gets mentored by the boss himself.

>> before this, i really didn't have too many opportunities. >> did you get dressed up for the book delivery? summer reading. >> taking it day by day, because i still can't believe that this stuff is happening. my responsibility here at the city hall is to take the mail and file it in the cabinets. i'm grateful for it. >> these are the dog dales of summer. down on the south side, folks do all they can to cool off.

principal liz dozier keeps fenger school open during the summer. >> part of our goal is to keep them inside the school programs. >> timothy, good job. we're proud of you. i can have it and put on my wall? >> yeah. >> if you want to make a difference, you have to intervene at the earliest point. i think the reality is, kids get lost. [ sirens ] i never really thought about why i feel really passionate about the kids and the work. but i realize that it is a deeper connection. my dad wound up with the wrong group of people and i think that's what landed him in jail. i wish someone would have given my dad the same support we're trying to give the students at fenger, because i think he could have led a different life. >> liz's father isn't behind

bars anymore, but some of her former students are. she refuses to give up on these kids. like jason barrett. >> i'm in here for robbery. i went to fenger, principal dozier had really been helping me out, buying me books to read, she came to see me every time she gets a chance. she always just keeps my spirits up and tell me everything is going to be okay and she still believes in me. >> how are you doing? >> i'm okay. i was just thinking about you, ms. dozier. i think i'm ready for society again. >> i know. >> i'll get out and i want to show you that i want to be successful. >> liz has been talking to a judge about getting jason out early, but she's worried about him returning to roseland during the summer. >> i want to have a solid plan for when you come out. all those temptations are going to be there.

what is your plan going to be? >> okay. >> jason hopes to get out of jail soon, because every day on the inside presents its own risk. >> this is hell. we're taught to be ruthless. it's crazy. this ain't no correctional place. this [ bleep ] make you corrupt. you come in here a little criminal. by the time you leave, you graduate. ♪ [ girl ] there are man-eating sharks in every ocean...

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>> just city hoops. >> you love that, don't you? >> yeah. >> do you think you can teach a jewish mayor to dunk. >> this summer, the mayor's personal mission is to keep martell on track and out of trouble. >> do you know what our project is for the fall? >> what's that? >> i'm going to get you serious about your test scores and get going so you can get to college and use this and really grow exponentially. so what else are you doing? >> like a lot of females starting to really know who i am. >> are you serious? >> yeah. >> how are you? >> girls, man. do we have to come out to columbus park to help you one more time, a little assist, huh? >> if you want to, that would be a blessing.

>> outside the metro, the sold-out crowd lines up to see chicago's latest hip-hop phenom, chance the rapper that kicks off his acid rap tour. ♪ >> this is the hottest city for hip-hop right now, period. 12 guys got signed to major label deals last year. and even more and more. every week somebody new is popping up. >> andrew barber has his finger on chicago's rap music scene. >> kanye, chief keith. i think the biggest star to emerge is chance the rapper. >> chicago hip-hop scene is very chill right now, especially in comparison to like the way

chicago is. >> there's a lot going on in chicago right now. a lot of murders. let me ask you, you got a gun? >> like, i'm not [ bleep ] to promote violence or having a gun, but i know what the situation is, and it's very real. >> and for chance, it's all too real. his pal kevin ambrose was gunned down in the spring. >> i remember waking up that morning, chance was pretty upset. he told me, kevin got killed last night. there are a lot of challenges here, and i'm concerned about chance every day. >> kevin ambrose had a heart of gold and a bright future according to one teacher, but he's the latest victim of gun violence on the streets of chicago. >> kevin was in the wrong place at the wrong time. at 11:00 p.m., he was waiting for a friend at the 47th street l station when a gunman got out of his car and started shooting. >> kevin ran north bound through a vacant lot.

as he was getting shot at. >> ultimately where he was found is just ahead of us about 25 feet or so. that's where he died at. >> i just heard knocking at my bedroom door. i opened the door and it's his friend telling me you have to come on, because kevin was shot. you need to hurry up, because it doesn't look good. >> i would like to be one of those people that talks about forgiveness. this piece of [ bleep ] can rot in hell. >> new charges have just been filed. police say this man, 26-year-old jerome brown, is in custody. >> the man accused of killing ambrose is 26-year-old jerome brown, a repeat felon. >> he served less than one year of his eight-year

how many do we have today? >> 16 right now. >> so we're 470 this morning. >> the cook county jail is the largest single site jail in the country, and it's overcrowded. >> we have a population that hovers between 10,000 and 11,000 people a day. >> the sheriff has to determine whether inmates pose a risk or not. >> i have no delusions. some of them the best thing we do for society is make sure they never see another human in their life. the majority of people in that jail are fixable, though. so with what limited resources i have, we work on them.

>> liz visits cook county jail to see former fenger student jason barrett. one thing she's learned from her own family experience, people can change while they're in jail. >> my mom around 18 joined the convent where she stayed for almost 20 years. she met my dad. she was in cook county jail and she was doing ministry and stuff there. then they built this 14-year relationship. she kind of followed him around. she would visit him and she eventually left the convent because she got pregnant with me. at that point, she's got to go. she's a pregnant nun. not only are you leaving the convent, but you're going to marry an african-american man who happens to be in jail. when i was born, it was hard. they didn't have much money. they didn't even have a cradle for me. they had like this drawer you pull out.

my dad got out of prison when i was like 5 and he was around until i was like 13. i believe there's hope for all of our kids. everyone has potential inside themselves. even jason. >> liz got invited to be a guest at this rather unusual stop the violence rally, performed by inmates inside a cook county jail rehab unit. >> we see every day pain, despair, self-pity and hopelessness. many of us in this room have had our hand in this madness. it's not too late to stop the violence. >> we have a special guest, ms. dozier, the principal of fenger high school. >> thank you for welcoming me here today and for allowing me to experience this with you. harness this. use this to move and change your

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my name is mark smith. >> chicago's always been a city of great writers, from carl sandberg to gwennlynn brooks. >> when rahm emanuel was a boy, all he wanted to do was dance. >> mark smith took that idea one step further when he created slam poetry. >> this changes people's lives. it's not passive. it's not a museum. oh, i like it. chicagoans do not put up with the bull. >> how to talk like a chicagoan. hey! hey, [ bleep ] you, buddy. >> here is a tall, bold, slug fisted city, sent vivid against

the little soft cities. this is a dog lapping for action, cunning as a savage, pitted against the wilderness, shoveling, wrecking, planning, building, rebuilding under the smoke, dust all over his mouth, laughing with white teeth under the terrible burden of destiny. laughing as a young man laughs. show me where we're going now. show me our proud destiny. [ applause ] >> being a word smith takes serious dedication. chance the rapper got his start in high school, playing tiny stages. and even public libraries. ♪ >> it's the same place friends and fellow performers came to mourn the murder of chance's friend, kevin ambrose. >> us, you came together.

we're a positive force right here today. his murderer just said he felt like killing somebody. it could have been any one of us, man. >> growing up, kevin and chance performed at after school programs like this. while chance was at the studio recording acid rap, kevin was killed on the south side. so many senseless shootings in chicago inspired chance's latest work, his most personal song, "paranoia." >> it's about the people that are affected beyond the two people that have a confrontation. it's really just about putting the death of a young innocent person in front of a bunch of people's faces. ♪

♪ everybody is dying in the summer ♪ ♪ i know you're scared ♪ me too >> everybody in this room is lucky to be alive right now. out on the street, kids face a lot of pressure to join gangs and tote guns. the mayor and superintendent check in on the one summer plus program, targeting at-risk kids and it has good success keeping them out of trouble. >> i'm checking in today, physically i'm feeling blessed. intellectually i'm feeling good about going to college this fall. and spiritually, i'm connected

with the ones that are with me today. and with that, i'm checking in. >> i'm going to sound like i'm complaining physically. my back hurts, my neck hurts. intellectually, i'm thinking about how i'm going to cram 26 hours into 24 hours. emotionally, i'm happy, because i've got the greatest job in the world. >> and with that -- >> i'm in. >> i'm mayor rahm emanuel. physically energized. got my workout today. i'm intellectually feeling really good, because i'm ahead of my summer reading list. emotionally balanced, spiritually connected to my family and kids and i'm in. >> physically, i'm feeling real good. intellectually, i can't wait to go to college in the state of wyoming for a basketball scholarship. emotionally, i just think today is a good opportunity, because today is the third time me meeting the mayor face to face.

he may not recognize me -- >> i do remember me. let's be honest, you were on the wrong track. you got yourselves back on the right track, so nothing energizes me more than you guys getting a second chance and not wasting it. these are really hardened kids. they didn't take some candy from a corner store. they've got to earn a chance and keep it. too much happens, like we owe them. that's not true. they owe themselves something. and if you show the willingness to be responsible and accountable, we should step up. but we don't owe anybody. >> okay, let's take a look at question number one. >> at cook county jail, jason

barrett attends programs to prepare him for life. >> i first started smoking, then gang banging, then being in jail at 20 years old. >> finish high school? >> i just finished last year. what's crazy, i didn't see nothing in me. >> they open the gates up tomorrow, you walk out, hit the street. what's the main issue you need to overcome? >> just learn how to say no. >> statistics show ex-cons have trouble staying out of jail. the majority of them end up back behind bars. >> you get out of jail, you no longer have your services that you've had. you have no job. it's easy to fall back in the same trap. >> liz works with jason's public defender and the judge in this case to get him out early, but she wants to make sure there's a plan for jason when he's released. >> his attorney was very nice, a public defender. i am thinking of his long-term

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♪ for its biggest music festival, lollapalooza. it got its start in 1991. it began as a weird musical circus that traveled from town to town, headlined by the beasty boys and smashing pumpkins. and most recently lady gaga and kanye west. in 2005, lollapalooza took its show off the road and pitched a permanent tent under the chicago skyline in grant park. >> everyone is always saying, why did we choose chicago? this was a two-way street.

you don't just walk in and choose chicago. you kind of choose each other. >> this year everybody is talking about a new artist on the lollapalooza bill, chance the rapper. >> there's a lot of chicago influence i put into the music, soul, jazz, rock influence, a lot of sounds that stem from chicago. >> for chicago, lollapalooza is more than a rock concert. over three days every summer, it pumps more than $120 million into the local economy. on the main stage in 2012, mayor emanuel announced plans to use lollapalooza to bring 100 of the brightest computer science and engineering graduates to college. >> they're spending more time at lollapalooza? >> you got it. that's the marketing idea. >> at the tech hub 1871, the mayor welcomes them. along with a group of successful entrepreneurs, they'll judge a

contest for the best new app for chicago. >> i'm going to be studying computer science. >> i studied computer science at the california institute of technology. >> oh, my god, i feel so dumb. i'm rahm emanuel and i got a degree in liberal arts education. can we get somebody else to come up here? i need to go to a self-help group. oh, my god. >> with the city packed with tourists, police are working overtime to make sure they keep a lid on violence. but some aldermen complain about the $100 million extra in overtime. and there's also questioning of the stop and frisk tactics. >> the superintendent is in the building, and you can call him directly if you have a question or comment. natalie, good morning.

>> this gang violence and it's bad parenting. it offends me as a black mother. it's not just about bad parenting, the stop and frisk. >> i've been talking about poverty, education, the breakup of the family unit on day one. i don't know what to say, because we keep talking about it. so it sounds like she's upset about it. i'm curious what her solutions are. >> liz's solution for jason is to get him in a halfway house far away from roseland. >> what is a kid like him going to do? your face is tatted up. you have a record. who else is going to really help him? >> i'm liz dozier. nice to meet you. >> take the straw out of your mouth. stand in front of the camera, please. what's your name? >> jason barrett. >> the rules and regulations is in this packet. yes, this is a schedule that you

have to abide by. and yes, we do have a curfew. >> my dad was homeless for like 12 years. so this is an issue very close to my own heart. so i totally know something like this can really change the course of someone's life. >> liz still keeps in touch with her father, but she's especially close with her mom. >> my mom is very like independent, really prides herself on that. she was a teacher from the time she was in the convent to the time she retired two years ago. >> you were teaching a math class in seventh or eighth graders, okay? and you bent down -- >> how do you know this? >> because it went through the whole school. the whole school was talking about it. the kids were like, oh, ms.

dozier, you're wearing a thong. >> i don't wear thongs, mom. >> no, because you know -- >> that was mary, that was not me. i don't even wear thongs, mom. >> liz is very strong willed. she was pushed into this role of being a leader and taking charge, because that's what she had to do. she helped me a lot. >> you want half my cookie? >> no. >> i look at her now and i think, oh, my gosh, i can't believe it's my daughter. it has just amazed me where she is now. >> ready to hit the bricks? >> when she started at fenger, they were having shootings and things in the area. she just said mom, you know, if something happens to me, know that i died doing what i love to do.

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we out here killing each other for nothing. everybody feel like they hate each other for some reason. i hate you because you're wearing the wrong color. you got a job, now i want to take from you. that's just the way life is right now.

>> it's illegal to even sell spray paint in chicago. but still there's a thriving graffiti scene here. >> this is our own reaction to gun violence. >> graffiti writers were once outlaws. but now they get commissions like this one. they mentor student artists who help paint the murals. >> this is one of the most powerful art movements in maybe our history. >> all over the city, mentors are having a positive effect on kids. >> are you working hard? >> yeah. >> how did you get off? >> rahm encourages martell to do more reading and studying to have a real shot at going to a good college. >> are you good? >> i'm good, man. i'm just thankful for all the blessings you've been giving me. >> by the time i'm done promoting you, you're going to need an agent to make sure my younger brother represents you.

you're focused. i want you to widen your horizons, see and experience other things, learn. and there's nothing that's going to stop you. you've got it. you know something, you're getting big. have you noticed that? when i first met you, we were eye to eye. you're getting too big for me now. >> before this, i didn't really have too many opportunities but now people are trying to get me into universities. people want to write me recommendations and all other types of positive things. >> i love you. see you. >> it did change my life. a lot. i'm grateful for it. >> i graduated from selling marijuana to selling cocaine, and eventually in 1988, the feds came and got me and sentenced me

to 25 years. >> jason attends a community meeting led by charles perry, a former drug king pen who served more than 20 years in prison. now he runs a program for ex-felons like jason. >> when i came home and looked at this community, the community that was thriving in the '80s, and to look at where it's at, look at our young people, i knew i had work to do. >> charles got jason a job interview, but jason was a no-show. >> i mean, i get up early, come out of my way to pick you up, ain't no doorbell. i said i'm going to be how long it will be before he calls me. i'm waiting on your call. you don't call. >> my momma kept taking up the phone. >> i understand all that. you should have called before she took it. >> i feel like if i mess up this time, everything is just over for me. i can't let all this go down the drain. so this time i'm going to be

ready. >> principal dozier is upset. jason not only blue his shot at getting a job, but he left the halfway house, too. >> you know, we had him set up with the support, the counselors were willing to work with him. >> when jason shows up at fenger, all liz has left to give is tough love. >> sir, pull your pants up. scan yourself in. you know, you always have been very special to me. i told you that when you were little jason, four, five years ago. >> uh-huh. >> i had you set up, jason. dude, set up. i was in a dorm room. i set you up. you missed that appointment with that guy, right. why did you miss it? >> i woke up five minutes late. >> dude, you've got to step it up. you've got to step it up, because the reality is, you're

getting ready to lose a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. >> i feel like i ain't got nothing. >> they were offering you your own apartment. all your own stuff is gone. >> i was so hurt. i felt like i have a lot of hope for you. i want you to do so well. take care of business, because i'm still going to love you the same and pray for you. but we can't offer you anymore opportunities, because we have other people. it's over. it's done. >> you going to give me a ride home? >> no, you going to walk. that's a slow walk. people know you about business. see, there you go. >> it's just unfortunate. really unfortunate.

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on his 20th birthday, chance decides to celebrate with one hell of a trip. >> i'm here with my best bud, about to hop out of a perfectly good airplane. >> but his manager, pat, he's not so sure about this idea. ♪

>> chance leaps onto the lollapalooza stage and into the bigtime. >> chicago, what the [ bleep ] is wrong! ♪ >> being really established local artist going to the national platform. this time next year, chance will be at the grammys.

>> this is one of lollapalooza's finest years. more than 300,000 people attended and there were only ten arrests. not one violent incident. >> i would like to introduce the superintendent of the chicago police department, gary mccarthy. [ applause ] >> i like that. >> since the fourth of july holiday, shootings and murders have slowed, especially where people focus on crime hot spots. >> shootings are down 48%, and overall crime is down 29%. >> having reduction in shootings is significant. having reduction in homicides is significant. there's a level of safety that people could feel and perceive in their own community. whether you live in roseland or ravenswood, whether you live in wood lawn or wildwood, whether you live in south shore, parents

feel their parents can walk to school, pay out on the street and be out on the front porch. thank you. >> the sumer turned out to be safer for kids, and two things that made a difference is police work and summer programs. >> i like reading. >> you have to spend too much time passing legislation and stuff. >> that's okay. at night, i'm reading a biography. i read right before i go to bed for an hour. >> you've got to do it. >> i've got to make the kids do what i do, one way or the other. >> for the mayor, there's an even bigger challenge ahead, when school starts in a few weeks.

jason never got a job. several weeks later, he was arrested for robbery. and thrown back in jail. >> i don't know if there is a point in which you give up on kids. we never forget like all those other kids. you know, they're just not here anymore for one reason or another. it's happened where kids have been here, you no, one day you're talking in the hallway and the next day they're just not. sometimes i pray. i think that even when people die, like they're still here in some form of fashion. one of my kids got shot in the head, and so i went to the hospital and before he died i

was holding his hand just telling him, you know, it's going to be okay and you're going to be fine. but i asked him to look out for us, because i think that when people pass on, i think he helps us, like looks out for us. next on "chicagoland" -- >> we're all accountable to the children of the city of chicago. >> in jesus name, we bless the children that are going to school. >> kids have been crossing gang lines for years. >> it's real scary for them. >> something happens, we'll be all over it. >> if anything were to go south, we have to hit them with an ax. >> you are hear to see the best of the best.

>> we don't get more kids in this building, we're going to lose positions. >> they want the mayor's head on a platter. >> this is not the first time they've been angry. good evening again, everyone. it's 11:00 p.m. in new york, 11:00 a.m. in kuala lumpur. the search for flight 370 is not only getting back under way, but, and this is breaking news, the search area is now shifting. australian authorities say today's efforts will move to an area some 680 miles to the northeast of the old search area, the search area they've been looking at for the last couple of days. it covers about 123,000 square miles and lies about 1100 miles west of perth. this move stemming from ongoing analysis of the plane's last none radar contact. this is all new radar analysis. authorities say it suggests the malaysian airlines 777 was traveling f