earlier it may not just be one area. we may go to bed at night and say i'm going to do this one more time. >> michael, thank you. paul, david, bobbie, thank you as well. i'm jim in new york. chicagoland begins right now. cnn's original series "chicagola "chicagoland" is proudly presented by allstate. are you in good hands? previously on "chicagoland" oi oh. >> there are 100 cities that drive the world economy. >> the very violent weekend here in chicago. >> a mayor like rahm needs to deal with this upsurge in violence. >> gun violence. you tell me what a parent would pay to have their child back. >> a matter of a split second your life can change. >> there's an ongoing gang

conflict. >> unfortunately we're going to have tragedies. >> as far as chicago starts to cool off, kids have settled safely into school and crime has taken a ♪ nose dive. that gives a mayor just enough time for a late night date with "david letterman." >> i want to hear about chicago now. >> oh, don't go to chicago. the violence is unbelievable. now, tell us why people say that. >> well, first of all, they're cbs and you late at night. that's why. >> i'm getting enough sleep. that's the point. >> reporter: the number one thing the mayor doesn't want to talk about on national tv -- >> is it frustrating when you get to the national stage and you're on the "david letter man show" and one of the first questions is, of course, what about all the violence in

chicago? >> chicago has a great reputation, as a great city. we're architectural capital. we're a culinary capital, theater capital. and people will start to see the progress we're making of having taking an entrackable problem and starting to solve it. i want to see it faster. i know that doesn't come as a surprise to you. i want to see it yesterday. i don't want to make the phone calls to the individual mothers and grandmothers i have to make anymore. i don't want to do that. >> the mayor on the top cop to get results and when a police superintendent gary mccarthy's biggest crusade a mandatory jail time for possession of illegal guns. cops on the street confiscate a lot of them. >> there's about 80,000 plus guns here that we've recovered and we destroy them on a regular basis. look at the nature of some of these weapons. that's an ooze zi style machine gun. >> this drum loads, i don't know, probably up to like 30 rounds. that's a shotgun. look at the size of that barrel.

i think that there are holes in the laws that facilitate the flow of those firearms to the street and then on top of it while we recover more guns than any police department in the country, very few people go to jail for gun possession. it just doesn't make sense. once my officers facedown a firearm like this in somebody's hands on the street that person has got to go to jail. if we don't get something done about this we're going to stay on a hamster wheel. >> reporter: it's no surprise mccarthy is not a big hit with gun opponents. >> i'm okay with that. >> reporter: in the fight for tougher gun laws he also faces unlikely opposition from african-american political leaders who believe mandatory minimum sentences inequitably target minorities. >> people are getting crazy sentences where you've got to send somebody away for an extremely long period of time. >> reporter: guns locked up in county jail are not part of america's gun to be but they

know a thing or two about why so many people pack pistols in chicago. >> they pour 4,000 guns off the street in this year alone. as quick as they confiscate them, the quicker they come right back. >> you can't even come outside unless you've got a gun. these are the laws in our area. somebody come up a gun on you, now you know you need a gun to protect yourself, you're going to do whatever to get this gun. >> people out here on the streets, they ain't got no training in shooting guns. he over here, i'm going to shoot that way. if i don't, okay, i can go back and tell my homeys, i shot at him. i killed two little girls in the process, but i did shoot at him. >> i just came from the pen from doing time with a pistol. i would rather set up in the head than sit up in a casket. >> the guns, you are the main guy with the guns. >> everybody in the city of chicago have guns. >> i don't want you to hold back. you hear me? i didn't let you down yet, have i? you are more effective on the street than you are in here for me. i'm not going to get you hurt.

>> reporter: frank is a criminal investigator at the jail. he's also an expert on chicago gangs. >> when you talk about gang intelligence, right here, this room is gang intelligence. there's more information in here than you can imagine. i can solve every murder in the city of chicago inside this county jail. i can do it very easily because everybody talks. >>s there's a guy in division two. >> i need it done today. not tomorrow, you hear? >> reporter: the steady stream of illegal guns flowing in the chicago remains a major focus of his investigations. >> weapons that you guys were getting, how easy were they? >> it was easy to get like crates of guns. mostly like .380s, .32s,eds, 4-5s. >> what were the guns going for? >> it wasn't that much. a whole crate probably a couple thousand. >> how easy is it to get the bullet? >> people like they would be a gun cart or something, you know, give them a couple here, all

type of bullets for you, whatever bullet you need. >> if i was the mayor of chicago, how can i stop it? >> i don't know. i don't know. >> reporter: despite the on going gang conflicts, they want their students to enjoy a fun, wholesome homecoming week. >> i'm the principal, by the way. >> are you the principal? >> i'm the principal. today is the pajama day. i don't normally come in paja s pajamas. where are your pajamas? i don't even want to know. you were shopping at victoria's secret. no pajamas today? i hear you. thank you for wearing your pajamas. i know. we're having a redo or something. everybody is being lame. let's go. let's go. let's go. catherine, come on back. who else was it? who else? be quiet. be quiet. >> reporter: pajama day is a

bummer. it's like everyone t got up on the wrong side of the bed. >> go stand right over there and don't move. >> i'm not sure what's hatching today but this is not going to work. >> why aren't the kids dressed up today, the adults? >> the adults don't like pajama day. >> i don't think that's true. >> it only came out last year. >> we had a lot -- it was our highest attendance day of the entire school year was pajama day. all i'm pushing is what happened this year? we don't have hardly any kids dressed down in pajamas? it can't always be like i bought your pajamas last year, i was on the phone with you last year when i was in target, gordon, getting your pajamas. i can't always -- it can't be me. >> i'm going to run and get my pajamas. >> no, no, no. i want to. it's only 10:15. >> it's not just about pajama day. we don't have a school right now in terms of culture and climate. if i had them i would see more adults and more kids in their pajamas. you all think this is trivial but that is the honest to god

truth. >> reporter: there are people all over the city trying to give kids a shot at something better, whether it's pajama day or in boxing gym in inglewood. >> donovan, get on the scale. >> reporter: if it wasn't for sally hazelgrove, boys might be in the streets dodging bullets in the stead of the ring dodging punches. >> someone half tried to kill me. i try to get to the jil to avoid all the bull crap. >> keep your guard up. >> reporter: sally started this bokzing program in the church addict to give inglewood's most hard core kids a fighting shot at changing their lives and saving their neighborhoods. >> i've been working in inglewood for 15 years for at risk youth. i decided to survey them in the corners. what would get you off the block. boxing was one of the activities that they said they would like to have access to. i got trained myself. and i started grabbing them off the blocks and going to the schools and saying, give me your most dangerous poise, the ones

that you think is going to kill somebody. >> don't get mad. if you get mad, you lose it. >> i constantly emphasize to all the boys, you guys are going to change inglewood and save it. >> reporter: sally left behind all the conference of the knot side and moved to inglewood to pursue her calling. >> come on, baby. the mission came to me about 13 years ago. i had seen inglewood on the news a lot. i started volunteering. i remember when the minister took me over to the church where they had the juvenile program. there are all of these boys down there looking very tough. he said, oh, no, you don't want to bother with them. it's like, they're a waste of time. forget about them. i told them, actually that's exactly where i want to start. >> reporter: sally's compassion comes from having lived through some dark days of her own. >> i made so many poor choices. i still think -- i ran with a really bad crowd. i even carried a gun at one point. i have a dainty velvet purse and go to a bar or a club with my

little purse with a gbig gun in it. did somebody say something to you? are you sure? i'll get them if they do. i'm not -- all right, fine. you throw some punches, baby. there you go. >> reporter: in inglewood a lot of boys don't have anywhere else to turn. kids like ivory who is back at the gym the day after his mother died. he and his brother are on their home now. sue, they could be home sglls is there anything we can do for you for the funeral tomorrow? >> it should be good. >> there's been a lot happening, honey. how do you think your grades are doing going to be? >> my grades are still good? >> still good? that's good. see what i mean? that just shows how much strength you have that you're still getting good grades, going through all this crazy stuff. because a lot of people can't. >> i left my report card at the hospital with my mom. >> with your mom? >> yeah. >> you know we love you, right?

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. even chicago's older set knows how to party. and this group at senior fest is a reminder that in chicago many grandparents are almost their grandkids' guardians. >> our seniors, the most important people in our lives. i know that because i call my parents every day and if i don't call them they call to remind me to call them as soon as they hang up. welcome to being the son of a jewish mother. every day that i'm a father to a 16-year-old, 15-year-old, and 14-year-old, i know, i'm getting old, man, but every day i'm reminded at how good a job my parents did because everything i know about how to be a parent i got from them. and they did a tremendous job. not with me but with my two brothers. every one of you is a

grandparent. and the measure of this city, the measure of who we are will be whether we take care of the next generation and build a future or only worry about our past. and we've got to make this city as great as it was for us, we've got to make it even t better for them. >> reporter: and at this park in little village a latino neighbor hood on chicago's west side is exactly what rob and his wife amy are trying to do. >> hey, how are you? >> six years ago now we started a program called project play. so the idea was as a community if we come out here, bring out some balls, hula-hoops, the idea of getting the neighborhood out here. >> reporter: for a lot of mexican immigrants little village is the principle point of entry to the midwest. ♪ little village also has a serious gang problem and strong ties to mexican drug cartels that supply heroin and fuel violence. when rob and amy moved here they got a warm welcome but not the kind you think. >> they found out that we were called the police on them so in

retaliation while we were slipping inside they lit our house on fire. the guys will be out there, they would all be screaming and yelling and like shooting and throwing bricks and bottles at cars. i've seen all kinds of crazy things from this window. >> reporter: rob and amy refused to move out. >> one of the things that came out of that is, where do we go from here, do we leave and just say, well, this didn't work out the way we thought it was? we've just felt like the answer was, i need to have more things for kids in our neighborhood because, really, when kids have something else to do they choose something else to do. most kids don't grow up dreaming of being a gangbanger. >> reporter: they double downed on their commitment to kids in the neighborhood and started a sports and arts after school program called beyond the ball. >> you know, it's funny because everybody always wants to move into a nice neighborhood but it's harder to get people to make their neighborhood nice. >> reporter: over there, some kids just want to grand yat and get out of the neighborhood as fast as they can.

>> he's talking about events that happened to african-americans, right, like how they changed and made it better. >> i wouldn't recommend live in in roseland because it's violent. my friend just not shot in the head. and i actually lost my boyfriend last year, he passed away due to gun violence. he attended finger. everybody knew that was my boyfriend. ms. dozer, she attended his funeral. she now how much that affected me. i don't want to talk about that no more. >> reporter: maggie as her sights set on college next year but she's anxious. until she leaves roseland, anything can happen. >>nowadays. they just shoot. it will be a grandma, it will be kids in the crowd. they see one person they don't like and they get to shooting at the whole crowd. >> reporter: liz depends on the police to help keep fenger safe so she goes to meet the new

commander. >> hi. i'm liz dozer, i'm the principal. very nice to meet you. i just basically wanted to meet face to face. i think the police department is such a critical partner for our school. >> if you can fill me in on some of the issues that you're dealing with. >> some of the current things that we've been facing around 11th and halstead at dismissal time. 4:00 to 4:30, whole group of community that comes back up and sometimes there can be problems. >> reporter: every monday gary starts the workweek with a little show and tell to keep attention on the city's continuing trouble with illegal guns. but first, the soup has sage advice for police spokesman adam collins, a father to be. >> by the way, when is kim due? >> a week from today. >> once the kids comes along. >> yeah. it changes. >> oh, yeah. >> why do you think i can be so calm in crisis? i've had training and practice.

you guys ready? let's go. good afternoon, everyone. as we all know, chicago has had an issue with violence going back generations. we seize more than 4,350 guns so far this year in the first 32 weeks of 2013. that's an average of about 136 guns per week. our officers recover more illegal guns than any police department in the country. we tell you that all the time. gun laws in new york state, they have a three-year mandatory minimum for illegal possession of a firearm. it's not the same level felony as untaxed cigarettes like it is in the state of illinois. the system here is not structured to support the efforts that we're doing here. our men and women are putting themselves in harm's way to get these guns off the street. what's different here is the fact that the law does not support preventing those guns from getting into criminal's

hands and significant jail time which will teach people not to carry guns and make them unavailable to commit other crimes. >> and if we as government have an opportunity to do something about it, shame on us for not doing it. >> thank you. >> after that press conference an editor actually said something to the effect of, well, look, i mean, the guy got arrested with a gun, so, i mean, he didn't shoot anybody. i was -- i was awe struck and i said, well, not yet. >> there has been a mass shooting in chicago's back of the yards neighborhood. tonight it happened about 10:15. the fire department confirming for us that 11 people have been shot. one

13 people including a 3-year-old boy was shot overnight at the yards park. >> as gunfire triggers a new round of anger and frustration about violence in this city. >> chicago police are still working to arrest those responsible. >> a mass shooting puts chicago's violence problem back in the spotlight. police superintendent mccarthy faces the media. investigatoring believe gangbangers armed with military assault weapons shot up cornell square park in the back of the neighborhood. >> illegal guns, illegal guns, illegal guns drive violence. and military type weapons like

the one we believe to have been used in this shooting belong on a battlefield, not on a street or in a corner or in a park in the back of the yards. and it's a miracle in this instance that there have been no fatalities. >> is this a setback to the efforts that you've had and the announcements you've made recently that violence is down in chicago? now all of a sudden 13 people shot and 24 people shot overall in the past 24 hours? is this a setback to -- >> jake, every time somebody is shot in this city, it's a setback for us. the fact is, there's a structural problem with our laws that facilitates the flow of illegal guns to our streets. >> the fbi last week called this city the murder capital. >> how do you get rid of that image, though, in the rest of the country? >> we keep knocking down the murder rate like we're doing now. and this is not a time to talk about statistics. so i'm not even going to do that. >> this story is going to be on every network newscast this evening at 5:30. would you still tell america, i

guess, at this point, that your violence reduction strategy is working and that chicago is a safer city than it was in 2012? >> you see, you're putting me in a position ywhere you're going o make me talk about statistics which is not the point of being here. for me to stand here right now and tell you that we have more than 500 less gunshot victims in this city right now than we had last year, for me to stand here and tell you that we've got 200 and about 30 less shootings than we had in 2011, is absolutely irrelevant. i'm sorry. you're making me do it. but the fact is, that's what's happening. >> reporter: they hope to catch the shooters before their rivals seek street justice. >> mayor rahm emanuel felt the families of the victims at the hospital. >> he came home to visit victims at the hospital. >> a 33-year-old woman shot in the shoulder is at northwestern.

31-year-old man shot in the buttocks. that list seems to go on and on. >> when they had a mass shooting, colorado stood up. when they had a mass shooting, connecticut stood up. in d.c. when they had a mass shooting, they stood up. now a mass shooting has come to our city, our great city, and it's important that we as chicago citizens stand up. >> when we come together, when we work as a community, that is who chicago is. this is the real face of chicago. last night is a reality of chicago. this is the real face of chicago. the parks in the city of chicago belong to the families of the city of chicago. the streets of the city of chicago belong to the families of chicago. >> reporter: the mayor and pastor corey brooks call on witnesses to speak up and help police catch the shooters.

>> every single day it seems like we're faced with violence on every hand. we just ask that you protect our children, protect our families. we cannot do everything on our own, but give us the strength to do what we can do. amen. >> amen. >> these streets crazy. rude, disrespectful, inconsiderate people that just goes around shooting up parks, people's homes, cars, not knowing kids in there or not. it's crazy. it got to stop. >> reporter: sally hazelgrove's boxing gym -- >> do you think they were gunning for just one person? >> when people -- when people put their handguns down and go get their guns they're so more

killing a mass amount of people. >> what do you think the retaliation is going to be? >> retaliation is a must, it's a matter of when and on what scale. >> reporter: she's worried about her boys' safety and the future of her gym. >> i just feel like the only way to stay safe is to be inside right now, you know? it's just the reality. >> the situation with chicago is so delicate right now because you've already got a group full of kids that don't trust nobody. they don't trust nobody. killing around us 24/7 is enough to drive a man insane. but, i've been desensitized. >> you guys once again have a moment to be heros to these kids and to the parents. since you're not scared -- >> i'm scared a lot. i have a 2-year-old daughter i need to take care of. so i fear losing my life every day. >> reporter: over at fenger, liz worries that recent gang conflicts could threaten her students. >> you're not going to make it. you've got to make it to the hall. let's go. okay. i just want to make sure we're

all clear and how we're going to proceed over the next couple of days. >> there's so much going on in the community, so much shootings out there and it's -- this gang stuff is fire. >> what are other schools doing to resolve this or keep this under affect? it's coming in. it's there. >> i really think there's more we can do to control this. i don't buy -- i just don't buy it. i don't buy that we have to, well, we're going to do what we're going to do in the building. there's stuff we can do. >> what are we each doing to make the kids feel so close to us that, a, they're telling us what's going on, or, b, they're keeping this stuff down in the building. i don't buy that we're doing everything and, you know, like, there's nothing else we can do. >> everybody is working hard but we're not working smart. reality is the ball is being dropped. it's being dropped over and over and over again. until we get the ball back in our court, the school will not be right. >> reporter: liz is counting on her team to keep the school in order while she's away at a conference. >> everybody has to have a come

to jesus talk with themselves tonight and do some serious prayer and reflection and realize it's messed up. you guys have to get it dot. you have to work together as a team. i won't be here. i don't expect the building to fall apart, you know, like everybody is just -- it's a mess. see y'all. >> reporter: the pressure is building and not just at fenger. mccarthy and emanuel are under the gun to catch the back of the yard shooters before there's yard shooters before there's another mass shooting. we all . 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.

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police are searching for the shooter or shooters in an incident that grabtd national headlines. police say they're questioning people but have no one in custody. >> i believe that there's a hidden hand that's trying to convince many of our young people that life is cheap and that their life is cheap, but we will expose this lie. >> reporter: father phleger is a catholic priest who for more than 40 years has been speaking out about violence like the mass shooting in the back yards. >> we must let our young people know that they're life is variable, their destiny is great, their potential the unlimited. they are the very best of god's children. let's let our children know we've got their back. >> in 36 years here, i have

never seen more poverty, more hopelessness, and more people in desperate situations than i have right now. this is a human problem. this is a genocide, and people don't give a damn. you go to springfield, go to washington. won't touch the gun issue because who is dieing? black and brown kids. >> reporter: two days after the mass shooting father phleger invites the mayor and a few nba stars to a peace basketball game at his parish. bulls all-stars noah and inglewood native derrick rose are in the house to show their support. >> a lot of gang violence and gun violence and we just wanted to show up. >> reporter: this court is a safe place where even rival gang members can play together.

>> this is the first time in history where black and brown america where black and brown men have been killing each other at this rate. there was a time in this country where black and brown men came together and fought police brutality or fought a racist society that wanted to attack them. >> these are teenagers we're talking about. we label them as gang members. we should all be concerned to care enough about these young teenagers that are in this predicament. >> reporter: the predicament is clear at the jail, where black and latino men make up 86% of the population. cook county board president takes a tour. >> what happens here, of course, is an incredible amount of injustice in our criminal justice system. first time anders that get these

astronomical bonds and their family struggles to come up with 500 bucks to get them out. disproportion impact on communities of color, i usually say the jail is the intersection of racism and poverty in this country. >> reporter: thelma doesn't get caught up in jail politics. he's all about solving crimes. >> what do you guys get them from? >> there's a bunch of ways. sometimes from arabs. back in the day we used to get the freights. >> where do you get the guns? >> it ain't just people on the streets that's bringing these guns in. it's people that in high-yield positions that are bringing these guns in. >> anyway possible to make a phone call and get us a gun? >> he said it's underneath the garbage can and there's a wooden gate there. >> there's the gunman. >> oh, man, please, i don't want that name.

>> the boss has a team that investigates the trafficking of illegal guns. but the automatic weapons used in the recent shootings. >> there is always this myth that the guns were all flooding the city of chicago from far south and that's just not the truth. the majority are coming from within illinois, stemming the flow of guns has to be done and that's what we've been focused on. the other part of it, too, is convicting the people who are doing this. >> reporter: gun law loopholes continue to allow straw purchasers to allow guns in the suburbs and illegally funnel them into chicago with little risk of consequences. >> you can buy as many guns as you want and walk out the door and there's absolutely no accountabili accountability. we'll recover the gun, okay, thank you, it was lost two years ago but i didn't have to report that. in the meantime it could have been used in a murder. >> reporter: those guns flood neighborhoods like inglewood putting kids like sally's at risk. >> you know i'm here -- right? i'm so -- you have no idea how

paranoid i am. y'all go somewhere. you big people, go somewhere. i'm getting irritated seeing you standing around doing nothing. >> reporter: no one has been arrested yet in connection with the back of the yard shooting. sally keeps security tight to protect her kids. >> excuse me. this is my place. no, no, no. you didn't hear me. go. out. this is my club. you brought somebody over 18 into my club, that's it. it's for children anyway. so, bye. i worked with young men over 18, but i realized it was too much of a risk, to be honest. there were too many times when they had too much gang activity and i was worried about them being a target. why would he then tell them and have them come here? i mean, your know what, it's just a mess. what if somebody shoots at them and i'm with my little boys and one of my little boys gets shot?

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♪ a manhunt for the back of the yard shooters continues, the mayor makes an appearance at the celebration showdown, a reunion of chicago's power houses. the mayor's first term kicked off he had strong support from the black community. since then, he's lost ground with african-americans. and he's trying to regain it.

these days there aren't a lot of ball games being played at carnell scare park, the scene of the back of the yards mass shooting. >> i was talking and i just got up and ran when i heard the shots and i didn't realize i was shot. bodies laid out on the ground. everything was majority right here. >> reporter: neighbors here still worry about their safety. curtis harris got shot in the thigh and fiance's grandson was the 3-year-old who took ans assault rifle bullet to the face and survived. >> he was the strongest one out of everybody. you know, he didn't cry, he didn't scream like he was shot or anything. he was steady trying to run around and play. you know, this is a place where we come and have a peace of mind and try and enjoy ourselves.

never thought an incident like this would happen. >> reporter: the little village, rob and amy revived a park that was nothing more than a gang-worn battleground. >> you're in third grade, right? you can sign up for the basketball league if you talk to coach mike. >> reporter: word of rob and amy's good work has spread far beyond their neighborhood. >> you've been there since we started this. you know? thank you so much. >> reporter: the new york city, their program beyond the ball gets honored at the up to us leadership awards. ♪ >> sports is the most effecti i tool in influencing lives of young people. so we have to get behind the effort that coaches and mentors are available to our youth, especially in inner city environments. >> reporter: having heard about rob and amy's success back of the yards neighbors reached out

to them for advice. >> i knew the amazing work that they had done in little village to bring people back and restore confidence in public space when things happen. >> after something like that happens it took a circus, you know, the media, you know, the politicians, just anybody and everybody. they're out and they want the inside scoop and eventually this story is going to die down and something else is going to pick up. and if you're community residents, you know, we're afraid that people aren't going to use the park. >> reporter: back at fenger, principal dozer's staff works to keep things under control while she's away so homecoming can go off without a hitch. fenger's pep rally gets off to a spirited start. >> where are my staff that can dance? come on down. >> reporter: until some former students return to school and start trouble. >> everything good down there?

jocelyn, come here. >> something going on, jackson. we need police. more police. more police. call now. we're right now on 112. 112. >> reporter: with liz out of town all of this has her staff rattled. >> is there nothing we can do about that? he don't go here anymore. >> dozer has been talking to them. they've been promising they aren't going to come up here. simpson had to get out and shoot him away. you see? >> the problem is there's something fundamental li wrong with punishing the entire school for an action of a few kids. >> i said because 97% of the building is fine. >> at some point we've got to be able to have normal high school. normal. every other high school in this city is having a freaking homecoming dance. every other high school in this city is having a homecoming dance. why can't we have a homecoming dance? it's ridiculous. it's ridiculous.

>> breaking news. charges are filed late tonight in connection with last week's shoot that left 13 people wounded including a 3-year-old boy. two suspects are scheduled to appear in court tomorrow morning. >> last night charges were filed against two. offenders overnight two additional offenders were charged including the man who fired a military grade weapon. brian chant, one of the offenders, charged last night, was convicted of unlawful use of a weapon by a felon in july of 2012, and was sentenced to boot camp. if bryan champ is not on the street as he shouldn't have been, this incident likely does not occur. the motivation for this incident was an unreported shooting where this individual, mr. champ,

suffered a graze wound earlier last thursday. and as a result, the retaliation took place at cornell park. the criminal who becomes a victim of gun violence and does not cooperate with us does so likely because they're going to take care of it themselves. and that's what happened in this case. it couldn't be a more clear case of gun violence and a way to prevent it. >> bringing in the state patrol or national guard. any extra help or want anything? >> if the state wants to give us some help, then give us some gun laws.

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angle wood but it was not true. >> it was true. >> no, i not. >> it's not true. >> it's really not a question of money. if i had a million dollars, you would do the same thing you're doing. your purpose is noble. do i ever relax that you're inglewood? no, no, i don't. it's dangerous as hell. there's a helplessness that you feel as a parent. there's nothing you can do about that. >> i get scared sometimes. i would be crazy not to be. but all i ever think is, it's

not okay for my kids. how can it be okay for any kids? >> absolutely. >> you know? >> reporter: at fenger homecoming is on. the staff decided that despite the recent flare-ups the students deserved to have their dance. the kids are excited, especially maggie, a senior with her heart set on getting crowned homecoming queen. >> i can't wait to get my crown for today because, you know, i'm homecoming queen. >> reporter: and liz is back. >> gather around the homecoming court. >> thank you, again.

i appreciate it. >> the commander is here. i reached out to him and a couple of there people downtown to make sure we had additional support for our dismissal for the dance. i called the big dogs, we need help. let's start making our way. let's start making our way home. be safe. have a good night. watch your mouth. let's go. >> reporter: when the dance let's out there are no officers insight as the kids walk home. >> stop throwing stuff. >> down the streets some students get in a kind of skaufskau scuffle that is scary in roseland. >> call the police. there might be a fight in progress. i'm not sure why they're not here. >> reporter: liz marches in the fray. >> you copy? okay, you all. let's go. we're not doing this. let's go. so whoever needs to start moving, start moving. let's go. everybody needs to go. start walking.

i got this. did you all get that? i got this. >> reporter: city hall makes the most of the recent capture of the mass shooting suspects and uses it to continue to push for common sense gun laws. the mayor of super tuesday mccarthy are joined by the mother of slain honor student whose murder made national news. >> it's been almost nine months since i got a call from her friend that hidea had been shot. it's been noorly nine months for everyone else but for me it's just like yesterday. learning that my daughter's alleged murder had been in jail for another gun crime was devastating. it's like rubbing salt in an open wound. and my community carrying an illegal gun is no big deal. but it needs to be a big deal. now, people ask me why i keep

speaking out on this issues when it's clearly painful. and it's painful but i know if i don't speak, i'll sit around and cry and crying doesn't do anything. >> reporter: the man charge with hadiya's murder was released from jail just months after being arrested for illegal gun possession. >> i want to thank you for behalf of everybody in the city of chicago for taking your personal pain and trying to make it into a public good and make us better. and i know how painful it is. >> reporter: emanuel and mccarthy continue to push for tougher gun legislation despite a new state law that made it legal to carry pistols even in chicago. >> the weak link in our system is our gun laws. it's life or death. the laws we have on the books do not actually act as the deterrent they are intended to do. so we say that if you have a gun and use it illegally, you get the same kind of minimum for

shoplifting. really. that's what we want to communicate? that's what we want to cia to the people in the city of chicago, that a gun crime equals shoplifting. we all know that the impact on a family, on a sibling, on a block, on a neighborhood, on a community is far more severe and yet our laws do not equal it. next on the season finale on "chicagoland." >> don't tell me how we've done for 40 years, ask yourself, is that a better way to do it? >> spraying a handgun. you've got to get on it right away. >> it's about providing kids with resources. ultimately we just need more. >> everybody is putting gang signs up. >> over 25. >> it's my job to worry about what could happen.

>> a ticking time bomb of public employee pensions. because we're a union, now we're the bad guys? >> today the bill is due. >> i think everybody can be. i'm the man, as my father used to say, of simple needs. i want a golden uniform that shits money. why is it okay with a penis but you can with an octopus tentacle? if i was a chef i would stab you in the neck with a fork. i would never do that as a responsible journalist but i'm interested in investigating. so that's where potatoes come from? certainty is my entity. i'm all about doubt. questioning one's self in the nature of reality. in ancient times drivers would hang the testicles of their enemies on their