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previously on "chicagoland." >> the city of chicago is on watch for the children of chicago. >> here they come, here they come. >> we now have a digital economy. >> is he the mayor of the 1%. >> you can not our voices out. >> shift to the left. >> it's like anything can happen anytime. >> this place can go zero to 60 quickly. >> i thought we were in america.
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not in a foreign land where we hear about war. >> 50%. >> it's my job, it's your job. ♪ >> when people want to know how a trading post on the lake became a world class city, all you have to do is send them to the top of the john hancock and have them look for themselves. why chicago? because it's at the cross roads of everything. mayor emanual wants to capitalize on that. >> 100 cities that really drive the world economy. chicago's in it. unlike berlin, unlike new york or shanghai, we're not guaranteed a lot. what we do in the next two to three years will guarantee whether in 20 or 30 years we're in the top 50 or we slide back. i'm determined to keep us in that top 50 and moving.
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>> welcome to o'hare international airport. as we celebrate the opening of runway 287. >> chicago's o'hare airport once was america's busiest. a lot of work has been done to try to reclaim that crowd and rahm plans to be the guy to make it happen. >> when we say building a new chicago, we mean building a new chicago. [ applause ] we have a world-class work force, second to none. we have world-class transportation, stoekd none. this is church now. we have world-class city, second to none. and with this runway, the world's coming to chicago and chicago's coming to your house. [ applause ] >> something different is being unleashed in the united states and frankly around the world today. what's happening in many ways led by the city is a shift in how leaders at the local level think about economic development. >> bruce katz is a leading voice of what he calls the metro revolution. he believes cities are the incue
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barts of change. >> majors have to deal with the basics, safe streets, good schools but they also have to deal with the structure of the economy in ways they have never had to do before. >> spend some time, come to the office and we will give you the optimism of the future. >> the mayor's vision can be boild down in to a simple phrase, building a new chicago but he faces obstacles. if that weren't enough chicago's trouble with violent crime. >> we live in a world where capital can go anywhere. so a mayor like rahm needs to deal with the upsurge in violence and crime. this is a central issue. >> we had a violent weekend here in chicago. there were several new shootings including one man killed near sherwood elementary school. >> i'm a retired chicago public schoolteacher and i want to ask the superintendent why my students have to be scared to go
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to school in their own neighborhoods. >> i have to be clear, i'm responsible for reducing crime, but not accountable or in control of the things that cause it, like poverty, education, break up of the family unit. there's been a gun violence problem in this city for at least 100 years but i'm sorry. i'm not going to take the blame for the history that puts us in the place where we are. >> in the 2012 school year, 319 students got shot. despite parents fee fears this year has gotten off to a safe start. >> knock on wood, we have not had a student shot this week. between monday and today, it's only thursday, we haven't had a single student not any circumstances. >> jadine, you are right. i got so caught up in school opening i missed that. >> i didn't want to say anything because we still have one more day to get through.
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>> this is like everybody -- >> wow. >> the fear of violence has kept some freshman. if the principal doesn't get more kids enrolled soon her budget will take a serious hit. >> if these charter schools, it is like pulling parents under a misassumption because their skoo scores are no better than ours. >> next year we change our name. >> we need to do a better marketing. >> i mean i feel like -- i like who we are. i think we're good people. >> okay. attention all security. i'm looking for a young man, kind of short with a white
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t-shirt, brown khaki pants on. if you could please do me a favor and hold him for me. okay. everybody come around really quick. okay. see. >> principal dozier tells her team to prepare for the worst. there maybe an armed student in the building. >> every security in this building, we're at door 8, all security on the floors, i need you to go ahead and meet me at the middle of the second floor. >> over the radio liz gets an update. >> i'm not sure what year the this person is. >> security caught up with the student. he was just a lost freshman who came in the wrong entrance. while it's a relief, the constant threat of violence keeps liz and her team on edge. >> we have a huge influx of kids who weren't with us last year.
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>> liz alerts the chicago police gang squad to keep them up to date on potential troublemakers. >> you have the gangs on 122nd, but i don't think you still have a lot of them that go 0 the school. >> we actually had two come back and they are here. >> since we have talked. >> yeah. >> over in oak forest, dr. dennis is the guy you want around, a doctor and cop. >> i didn't sleep much last night. came from the hospital to here. it's all good. >> he's a trauma surgeon, cook county sheriffs deputy and ballistics specialist who knows exactly thou use guns and the kind of damage they can do. >> it's amazing when no one has bad habits how well they shoot. you want top shoot the rifle?
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squeeze. >> it gives residents a better understanding of the kind of wounds they will have to treat at the medical center. >> part of education, in my mind is to teach them more than just how to put an iv in, or how to sew someone up. if you are only in the ivory tower of the hospital you are missing half, if not more, of story. >> the shooting on the south side sends another victim to the trauma unit. >> he has no feeling below his left knee. captain move hi left foot. >> what's your name, boss? >> damian. >> that hurt, whatever you are all doing down there. >> all right. >> relax, dude, i'm trying to see if you need an operation to get your belly zipped open. now our job is to figure out what is going to -- there's a
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bullet missing. you don't know if it could kill him. my job is to take care of the person, body, soul and all. we have two holes. one went here and one went where? if you don't prevail as a surgeon the patient dies. >> welcome to chicago, the place called the most american of american cities. i like that. like all great cities chicago has its share of challenges and heros. cnn "chicagoland" takes a close, personal and moving look at the people who are dedicated to bring out the good in life. people live for good. that's allstate's mission too and why we are proud to sponsor cnn's "chicagoland." ♪ [ girl ] there are man-eating sharks in every ocean... but we still swim. every second, somewhere in the world,
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>> the first family moved from the south side to the white house they brought the chicago blues with them. ♪ >> so you started something and you have to keep it up now. >> president obama sure can sing it. ♪ >> come on, baby don't you want to go ♪ ♪ back to the same old place sweet home chicago ♪ >> come on, come on ♪ >> one of the best guitar players in the world.
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>> mr. president, this is a long ways from picking cotton to picking the guitar at the white house. >> came to chicago in 1957, part of the great migration of african-americans escaping the jim crow south to fiebd steady work. >> we get up in the morning and you would have to take your lunch because we had to be stuck out here, 100,000 people working around the clock. >> during the great migration, chicago's african-american community grew from 2% of the population to nearly a third by the 1970s. the south side became the center of black business and culture. >> it was the heydays and now it looks like a ghost town. >> today in poverty stricken neighborhoods, good paying jobs are hard to come by. ♪
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after 20 years of watches jobs and businesses disappear, folks are happy to welcome a wal-mart, viewed as anti-labor by many. >> you guys know how to open a store. it is something else here. everything thatter community pullman and rosalyn have the right to have that here, too. let's get going. >> wal-mart is bringing 00 jobs to a community plagued by unemployment and foreclosures. the pay's low but for some it is better than no pay at all. >> let us pray. through this wal-mart, our community will continue to stand. yes, roseland and pullman is worth fighting for. >> back at the cook county unit damian's fight for his life rests in the hands of dr. dennis who's still searching for the
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mis mis/* mitsing bullet. that's what i want to see. that's where it left the belly. that's where it came in and out. >> the human body is incredibly resilient. at the same time, a bullet only has to find one single path to something that's important to change that. >> he's not moving anything below the waist. nor is he feeling anything. 19. in a matter of a split second his life is completely changed. he was shot couple times. he's got some things that are broken. the bullet went through the spine, it did. right now you have to expect the worst and that is he will not be moving his legs again. >> damian draws a large
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population of wheelchair bround chicagoans. some of them refuse to slow down. >> eric wilkins knows first hand what it is like to be paralyzed by bullets. >> we come together and we challenge each other to be at the top of our game. >> in the soldier field parking lot, eric returns to the national wheelchair softball tournament where he's been mvp two years in a row. >> dig, dig, dig. >> push, push, push. >> i have both of the mvps one from new york and one from chicago. i'm trying to get the mvp this year. >> i got shot, stayed in the hospital five, six months. it had me stop and look at myself and i didn't like what i had become. >> eric survived the butte brutal gang wars that plagued the far south side in the '90s. how are you doing today, sir. all right. >> before my injury i lived my
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life in the fast lane, selling drugs, carried a pistol, partying all the time. didn't really care if tomorrow came. i was a gang affiliate. there wasn't no boys or girls club. so that was my fraternity. i didn't know how much i was really hurting my community. >> my name is eric. for guys that don't know me i run the broken wings foundation. >> after taking three bullets in '99 and becoming partially paralyzed he turned his life around and started a program to help shooting survivors. >> man got shot in front of me. >> and he passed away. >> yep. he died and i didn't get hit at all. in the '80s my uncle was put in a wheelchair. he got shot and put in a wheelchair. in the '90s, i got shot and put in a wheelchair, and in the double 0s, my son got put in a
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wheelchair. somebody has to draw the line. >> eric graduated from if fenger high where settling conflicts peacefully can save lives. >> how many of you as parents have had somebody fwif you a second chance. >> reporter: sgh he explains how restorative justice works. >> this is for all of the students, my daughter, will the students be safe? that's my main concern. >> that's any number one concern. hearing the old school stuff, a lot of people may think what's going on, safety is a priority. it's always been. and restorative practices we believe and know works. >> if more students don't show up for school, this program and others could get the ax. >> if we don't find the kids we will lose more money. the assistant principal and i have begun the conversation of what position could we, not necessarily do without but how
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could we do without. we have to get 45 kids in this door and we have approximately four days to do it. that's it. each of these kids, right, translates to around $5,065. it affects our personnel and the services we can provide for kids. this is real and it is going to impact all of us at this table. it is going to mean someone at this table will not be here. it's real. we have four days. and we can keep focusing on the bad... dwell on the bad, talk about the bad... or, or...we can focus in on the good. i want to give it up for good. give it up for what is good. what can be good. what will be good in our communities. now who's with me?
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if you are someone who's has done well you are expect ed to give back to society. it's sort of the price of admission for living in chicago. >> mellody hopkins is a successful i businesswoman and film maker george lucas' better half. she heads up after school matters a foundation that provides programs for more than 20,000 chicago public school kids. >> these young men and women, we are giving them a skill and education that gets you a career so they can achieve a middle-class life. >> when it comes to chicago's first family there's only one clan that has the obama's beat, the dalys. >> between you and your father you have run the city of chicago for what is it 43 of the last 55 years. do you think, mr. mayor, there should be term limits? >> definitely no. [ laughter ]
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>> richard j.daley was chicago's original boss. his power extended far beyond the city limits. richard m.daley followed in his father's footsteps when he was elected mayor in '99. >> i love being mayor. greatest job in america. if you have issues, you don't blame anybody, you solve the issues. >> chicago averaged 800 homicides a year in the 580s, twice the number of murders in the city today. >> as we became the laughing stock of the world. chicago can do better. chicago will do better. i welcome the challenge. thank you. >> daley's 22 years in old made him he longest serving mayor. like his father before him, he had a vision to make sure a global city that attracted big business and young professional
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work force. >> always need a younger generation coming in at all times to keep the city flowing. >> we have been here 15 years. we grew up in suburbia usa. this is not what i thought i would be doing. >> dr. dennis and his wife raise their children in on the north side. >> can you wear that to school? >> every is always wearing them to school. >> really? >> yeah. like a bracelet. >> there's culture. there's museums. there's going to the lakefronts. at the same time, as a policemen, i see places you would never take your family because some of these neighborhoods it's like living in a battle zone. bend your knees. do what you can do. so you can shake your hip. can you do anything with this one. move your toes.
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>> damian has a long, hard road to recovery. >> try. we're going to get you up. the physical therapists are going to start to move you and get out of bed today. you have to learn how to transfer yourself from the bed to the chair, to the bathroom, all of the things that you do on a daily basis you have to learn how to do again. okay. do you know the guy who shot you? what were you guys doing? >> i was on my way home. >> look. look at me. focus on me. it's important that you focus on this stuff, okay. >> people want to label our kids as thugs, they are just kids caught up in the system. they are losing their dreams. they are losing their hope. when you have to go and watch your friends die and watch your friends die and watch your friends die, it's overwhelming.
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♪ >> as labor day approaches the principal and some of her friends escape the city for a camping trip. >> could you get my bag, please. there you go. you guys are so good at this. >> oh, jesus. >> for some of these kids this is their first camp site. >> should we be that close to this foliage. >> f it is okay. >> if something happens, i don't want to run out in to the woods. >> we're going to go out this door and go that way. >> if we are confused and it's dark. >> i'm not going to be confused. i'm going that way. >> i need you to think of one thing you want to leave behind from last school year. >> one thing i want to throw away is being late for school. >> my attitude. >> i want to throw away my lack
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of confidence and my laziness. >> i want to throw away all of the violence. >> police superintendent said he knew his department would be tested this summer and tested it was on labor day. a bullet hole in the front window, a gut wrenching reminder of the shooting last night that took the life of maurice knolls. he was shot in the chest as he sat on his porch at 105th and la salle. >> it's kradscy. it's sad. i tell them every day, stay out of trouble. try to do what's right. they getting chased and shot at. what are they supposed 20 do. >> maurice knows as a kid, young boy, 16 years old. >> eric watched maurice grow up. now he tries to comfort his family and friends. >> to be totally honest with you, it ain't really kicked in
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with me. it's senseless. i have known maurice for 16 years. i love him. >> these kids -- school can, i love school can. but i can't -- the school or get on the bus to school, you never know what will happen. >> father god, we are gathered here tonight for maurice. to pray for his soul. we are a strong family and we will make it through. >> everybody on edge. so if it triggers off between nobody come outside. >> after the memorial some of
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maurice's friends threw a party down the street. eric worries it could spiral out of control. >> i go out and hit the blocks and try to diffuse the problem. if it means me putting my life on the line for it, i'm going and everybody know it out here. >> this ain't that type of car. >> none of your business. >> times like this, even a little jealousy could spark a gun battle. >> get this. >> hey. y'all stop. hold on. >> eric tries to break up the fight. no one's listening. >>s what wrong with y'all?
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>> chicago's influence on american culture is undeniable. the art scene pump s $2 billion in to the economy today and attracts top talent from around the world. >> chicago is the most elegant city in the united states. but what is beautiful is also right and good. >> world renowned conductor riccardo muti has led the chicago symphony since 2010. ♪ ♪
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>> an orchestra is something that reflects the way of living in the city. music is one of the most powerful weapon that we have to create love. that's the reason when i came to chicago the first thing i thought is to bring music to the parts of the city that are far away from music and not from their fault. >> they aren't just far from the music, slow, unreliable public transit keeps many south ciders far from many other opportunities downtown. the cta has worked to improve the crumbling red line is one way to address that and rahm sped that project along. >> good morning. welcome aboard. >> politically it was a big gamble for the mayor. >> they are going to reroute 200,000 people on a daily commute. nobody had done. this politically risky.
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>> you could call it red line roulette. if something went wrong south side community leaders were ready to blast the mayor. >> if it wasn't on time and on budget, but you want to be part of it because it did. >> people talk about the commercial development that comes with a modern station. i took a bet. and we delivered. >> for damian it is about taking the first step. >> he has some function in his legs left. how much comes back is related to how much his body heels and how much his mind puts forth to working hard these are hidden things that people don't normally see. >> chicago pays a hefty price for gun violence. the annual tab tops $2 billion. >> that's hurting me. >> the cook county trauma unit, nearly 40% of patients are
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victims of violent crime. >> i don't think about the costs. we take care of people. i'm late. i think all of us exist in multiple worlds in the city of chicago. here where we see people in their lowest moments but i'm fortunate. i live in a beautiful house. i have beautiful kids and i live in a fairy tale world. >> dr. dennis may work two jobs but always makes time for his kids. after a grueling stay in the hospital, amy is well enough to return home to his son he faces so many on tackles to his recovery. he's been down the road before and offers hi support. >> you picture yourself walking. >> yeah, i know i can.
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i got to. i have got to. two kids need me to walk. i hope i beat them to walking. >> that's what's up. how many times did you get shot? >> six times. i could have been dead. >> i look at it like this. when i first got put in my chair it was time for me to sit down. instead of me going to jail i ended up in a wheelchair. >> trying to let me know to slow down. learned my lesson. it took a bullet to hit me to sit down. >> it ain't worth it. ain't worth nothing. >> just blocks away, the shooting continues. >> chicago police start another week of trying to put a stop to gun fire on the streets of chicago. this weekend saw nine people dying, including a teenager. >> tit for tat going back and forth. young guys, nobody over 30. >> days later there was another
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shooting that appears to be retaliation. eric show knows the temptation of revenge. >> i actually had a chance one time, one of my friends, we caught up with some of the guys that had something to do with it. the young boy couldn't have been more than 16, 17 years old and he is like hit him, hit it. but a calm came over me and i didn't want to hurt nobody. i realized. i said, man, i'm through. >> maurice was just 16. word on the street is he got killed by a rival click over a stolen gun. >> he gave them to you. in the 16 years that i had you, i enjoyed you, maurice. >> each shooting that claims a new victim has the potential to spark retaliation and set off a deadly chain reaction.
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>> when documented gang members become the victim of gun violence, you can be assured they are going to retaliate to that gun violence. >> i don't mean this to sound as callous as it may sound, but if people who should be spending more time behind bars end up getting, resolve the problem for you? >> no. come on, that's crazy. i'm not going to respond to that. the answer to that is no. because those individuals have children. they have parents. they have brothers and they have sisters. what we are saying is if they get killed it's okay. it's outrageous. what's the cost 0 the mother of the gang banger. what's the cost of a human life? i have low testosterone. there, i said it.
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when i came to chicago you were either a white sox or cub fan and you hated the other team. it's not a rule that mayor daley is a white sox fan. >> i'm going to give them away as a gift. >> you didn't make a bet. >> how do you know we didn't?
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>> the whole city's ready for some football. nothing in chicago like the bears. >> throw some burgers and brats on and a couple of tall frosty beverages and you are having a fun time. >> that's how you do it. >> prediction, bears win the super bowl. >> another super bowl record, the first refrigerator to score. >> almost 30 years later but people love it like it was yesterday. >> at soldier field, tailgaters get the party started with cold beer and meat. lots and lots of meat. ♪ don't you know >> in case someone has a heart attack they can go in the ambulance and they are all set. ♪ >> almost 400,000 chicagoans live in food deserts. >> i made a pledge in the campaign that we were going to cut 400,000 people in the city of chicago who live in what are
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designated as food deserts. that is they have to travel more than a mile to get fresh fruit, vegetables and meat. we have a partner in whole foods and they have invested in a part of the city that is usually passed over. they are not passed over nooim anymore. >> when the mayor called personally to ask us you take it seriously. >> and then i became a bad penny. bad penny. >> some people say they are surprised the mayor recruited whole foods to engelwood since most locals can't afford to shop there. first high production organic farm. >> a lot of programming around gardening, nutrition, healthy living. >> what do you think of what you see. >> people continue. look at these. >> hey hope to bring jobs and fresh produce to engelwood but money is tight. >> need 100 grand more. >> so he encourages the future
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neighbor to fork over some cash. >> need 100 grand to make that happen. is that right? mike am, what do you say, you do 50, i will do 50? >> deal, done. 100,000. >> thank you so much. this is fantastic. take your 100,000. >> all right. >> okay. so let me have your attention. if you know of my students that are out there who are not yet at school they have to get learning. if you bring a student school, we have a mcdonald's gift card for you. jamark slayton brought someone in. maybe $700 if they brought all the kids in. it is a small personal investment i can make to potentially save $100,000 in kids' services. people may not understand what does a student advocate do or
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what does a dean do or how is a peacekeeper circle. it is bits and pieces of the circle that makes the school function. we have one day left. >> i have already started to think of who's going to have to go. >> all right, guys. we saved -- all right. bye. [ sirens ] >> 14-year-old boy was killed yesterday afternoon blocks from his home an minutes from this very parish. >> another homicide. this time it is 14-year-old tommy mcneill who is one of maurice's friends. eric has watched these kids grow up and joins big red to plead with them to change their lives before it's too late. >> you can't do that no more. that is a decision you have to
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make. you have it in you, man, i seen you change. >> big red was friends with maurice but she is terrified he could be next. >> in and ou of the house, your friends, three have died within a week and a half period of time. you have tried the street life. try to change. >> i have been trying to stop doing all of that stuff that she talked about. i see what's going on here. i feel like that could have been me. never know. >> it's hard for me to see you out here. i see tommy and they are on facebook together. tommy and maurice and what's going to happen next? >> we talk about police response after a shooting. we have to go deeper and see
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there are other needs that have to be met. >> at a community meeting in engelwood, neighbors vent their frustrations to the mayor. >> every day we have to sit and work with these kids but you are telling me to go to school and college when i'm dealing with the fact that my boy got shot, my uncle and cousin got shot and we have to deal with that on a day-to-day basis so it is deeper than police presence. we have to get together and wake up the sleeping giant that's not doing what they need to do. >> there are kids i've met who have had their youth stolen from them because of what they have grown up around. that means we as adults have to live up to our responsibility. i don't know whether i have the ability to affect that. each year, 95% of homeowners won't have a claim. that's why allstate claim free rewards gives you money back for every year you don't have one.
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>> we have some serious challenges, but even though the valleys can be painful, i'm going to continue to do wa i think works. i've got to run here, okay. >> rahm focuses on things he can control, quality of life issues like adding bike sharing. turning the dirty chicago river in to the an urban playground. >> if you can't have people go
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outside and walk and run you can't be a modern city today. livability is part of it. we have the fastest growing downtown residential and commercial area in america by factor of four. this is going to be called rahm walk. >> we learn things all the time. that's why i love this job. >> at fenger, the school year hasn't gotten off to such a smooth start. the principal gets her budget. >> we have close to 100,000 we have to cut, right? >> about 100,000, exactly. it has to be positions because when you look at your non-position lines, which you have to supply, that doesn't even add up all of it, all of it won't add up to the amount we need to cut. >> that's what i'm looking at too. you said spicer or gordon. >> yeah. >> bottom line we have to cut
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positions. right now it's looking like it is going to be mr. spicer's position will have to go. >> it's difficult for miss dozier to do what she would like to do because she's lot a lot of those funds, but it all takes money and it all takes resources. and it has put a strain on what we try to do. >> unless something changes soon, spicer's day thes are numbered. >> benadryl doesn't treat pain, man. >> one of the patients got ahold of him directly. so he has been calling every hour asking for benadryl. >> don't cry. there's nothing we can do about it. we're not going to lose our medical license to give you medicine you don't need. you can't move. you are paralyze ed now?
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>> the symphony take their rendition to the masses with a free simulcast at the park. dr. dennis and his wife share a relaxing moment finally. >> it is very soothing. >> it is. >> see, aren't you feeling the stress melt away from the day? >> yes. >> i. a actually. this is very great, destressfying. we should have been doing this all summer. why didn't we do this. i didn't know it existed. >> i did. >> if you knew it existed why didn't you share. >> now i'm got to destressify. >> i love chicago. downtown street lights. man, it's bright. like anything is possible.
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♪ come out hire and it's every man for himself. it's no longer neighbors, it's just a hood. i just push through. push through. >> next on "chicagoland." >> gun fire triggers a new round of anger and frustration. >> everybody in the city of chicago has a gun. >> it's life or death. >> this is a genocide. >> everybody wants to move to a nice neighborhood. it is harder to it get people to make their neighborhood nice. >> i emphasize you are going to
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save engelwood. >> we are not doing this. >> my office is face down like this. that person has to go to jail. >> if i was the mayor of chicago how can i stop it? >> i don't know. this is cnn breaking news. the mystery of flight 370. i'm don lemon. breaking news for you. 15 planes, 13 ships headed out to the search zone for flight 370. and that zone has narrowed again today down to around 18,000 square miles. still a lot of ocean but there's renewed urgency to the search coming after the crew of an australia p 3 oryan picked up a signal that maybe from the black boxes. the fifth signal picked up by search teams so far and it is analyzed right now. we will bring you the news on that as soon as we get it. as the search goes on there are many more

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