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street. >> a security guard saw white car speeding the scene >> it looked like a war taking place. >> the shooting happened to near a church. >> i was waiting to get some food from the church and then they pulled up my car and i started shootinand started shoo. >> there are a lot of homeless people around here. all the gang members to sell drugs around here. >> the pastor of the church says
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it is possible some of the victims had been coming to were leaving the church but none are believed to be church members. there is a surveillance camera at the intersection that police will be checking for clues as the investigation continues at this point they tell us nobody is in custody. >> a 7 year-old boy is one of 33 shot over the weekend. he was shot last night on the city's west side he is alive but traumatized and afraid to leave the house. his mother says they had just returned from a picnic and her son was carrying a bicycle into the house when he was struck. he is the ninth child age 7 or under to be shot in chicago and less than two
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months. police are questioning a person of interesting connection to the shooting. >> some residents on chicago's south east side are looking for a new place to get fresh food after a neighborhood convenience store is destroyed by fire. firefighters took a couple of hours to get under control. nobody was injured but the building was destroyed. the devastation is felt by the owners of the store as well as family is in the neighborhood. some say they will miss the convenience. >> they had could produce good me and stuff like that that was the neighborhood store. >> the pirates comes days after the mayor announced that the number of those living in food deserts' have been reduced by 20 percent. today's fire is a setback for those who live along 79th street. >> two weeks left before chicago
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public schools are back in session. the schools cheat is making rounds tried to get students fired up. she is touting a reduction in standardized testing a new poll day kindergarten program and increased as a graduation rate which is up more than 3%. she was especially past about the new safe passage program. >> i am confident that the workers that we have had been trained. we're teaching people to d escalate incidents that may occur between the children. the safety of our children and communities is everyone's responsibility. . >> everybody starts school on monday august 26th. mark kirk takes another step back controlling gang violence. critics attacked & u.s. attorney simply could round up thousands of gang members. in his latest
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plan he asked for more federal help. >> ip the federal government into a lot to help lower our standards of gang violence in the country. >> mark kirk once the bureau of alcohol tobacco and firearms to appoint a chicago-based anti game coordinator. he says gangs have continued to grow and are now large enough that law- enforcement agencies are having trouble stopping them. >> they outnumber the police forces now. that is why we need federal back up. >> the attorney general
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recommended reducing sentences for non-violent drug offenders. >> will we have seen is the incarceration rates go down while shootings and murders and gone violence also go down. >> mark kirk is hoping the millions of dollars he proposes will up suburban authorities and their parallel fight against gangs. >> it is a collaboration of the assistance of working with federal partner in which is what will make this work in the community and get community support but we need to have our people safe. >> the current situation is being called intolerable. >> do you think the senator's
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plan to get federal assistance in fighting gangs will reduce violence? text us yes or no i will have the results after the 7 day forecast. >> a glimpse into one of chicago's most violent communities. we spend 12 hours in the neighborhood to get a slice of what life is like for residents in that area. caffeine may do more than just wake you up. it can also benefit people with a certain type of liver disease. we will have details on the full 7 day forecasts. the end.
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englewood we stopped up and spoke to a group of men and women hanging out in front of the store. it looks like it will be a long night. until we met james jones. he was on a break from his job at an apartment complex. at first glance you would never know this neighborhood is one of the most dangerous in chicago. >> what is the area like? >> it is crazy you hear sirens and see blue lights. >> it is englewood. that is the refrain we would hear repeatedly
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as if that explains all that is wrong in this part of town. >> englewood is bad every block. >> it is the kind of place where something as simple as a dice game can turn deadly. >> it is not safe around here anymore. >> these to grow up in this house for 50 years on the same block. >> they always respected this house. >> she grew up knowing her neighbors not these guys. it is
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not easy to raise your children here when you are fighting to reclaim the block but she did. >> my oldest daughter works at the county jail my other daughter works at the hospital. i have good kids. >> not all are so fortunate. this 15 year-old was shot and killed by chicago police of this year in june. reports say he was pointing a gun at officers during a foot chase. >> i feel like it was my fault that led him down. >> we met his grandfather by chance. >> my kids became victim of me doing time here. it trickles down to the next generation.
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>> in the past three months there have been more than 500 violent incidents. englewoods reputation makes it tough on businesses. the hardware store is closed for the night locked up tight we bumped into the owners' cousin. >> i'm not comfortable with the violence at all. i feel ashamed. i feel ashamed of the what we're doing to one another. >> there is always violence shootings gang fights. it is just sad. >> we have been here a few hours when we saw an all too familiar flashing blue light we followed.
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>> there is something going on at that particular house all the time. >> a young woman accidently shot the father of her baby. she has lived in the area for more than 30 years. >> is it still safe to support seen how these young gang members cannot even shoot straight? >> i feel safe. you still have to try and do what's right. >> steps away a group of kids continue to play basketball while police investigate a shooting. >> it was unnecessary.
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years he has patrolled this small but volatile neighborhood. >> the crazy comes out when i come to work. >> englewood never sleeps he says. >> you could drive down the street at 4:00 in the morning there will be just as many people out at 4:00 a.m. as there is a 10:00. there are young children out here at 2:00 in the morning. this places its own creature. you can find anything here. prostitution shootings victims of robberies and burglaries. it is all here. i can take it to the neighborhood
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and show you some homes that are absolutely beautiful and then there are some that are just you do not even want to step foot in to them. englewood has it all. >> our burst out of the night was could not bad we're flag down by a group of children worried about a dog left injured in tied to a fence. >> from poppies into a person with a gun. a lot of times you'll find guns, and then we
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will run their names to see if anybody has any warrants try to find out who they are where they're from. then we will be on our way. >> up and down we crisscross the neighborhood as he watches over fellow officers. >> watching over those wondering about making their presence known. as we head off on our own it is after midnight. in englewood you do not know what might come next. including a visit from a community activist . >> i would rather be here and save a life and educate those who do not have fathers. >> it is 2:00 in the morning and
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the neighborhood is what awake. a group of young men are being questioned. down the road we see it again this one at the end of the police chase. it is now three in the morning. we have gotten a small glimpse of life and englewood. we've seen sadness were there are no easy solutions. we heard the word respect a lot. respect each other, respect life. >> all the menus under the
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police dogs were neither arrested or charged. that method of having suspects but their hands on the hood of a car is a police state tactics. it makes it easier for them to check the backgrounds and ask questions during the stock when there are a lot of people involved. >> why some people in a northwest suburban community want these bleachers' torn down. a new study suggests that beer may be as bad for u.s. hard liquoyou as hard liquor.
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plays delivered by which alcohol causes the most emergency room visits. you'd be surprised to learn that beer is the worst when it comes to sending trick is to the emergency room. the study found more people came to the er with alcohol had consumed beer in the previous six hours. more male patients than females came to the hospital. >> it is about to get a lot warmer will have the weather forecast coming up next. ♪
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tomorrow mostly sunny with a high temperature of 88 degrees. sun and mix clouds and wednesday bring us a 10 percent chance of thunderstorms. the farmers need rain for the crops. >> new bleachers at a suburban school not everyone is cheering. why neighbors want them taken down. big changes for an institution that is taken pride in being a school for young african-american men. ♪
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>> one of the people who has the biggest problem with this is the county's top lawmaker. he owns one of these houses and his privatis a private citizen and e charge. >> we're asking the school board to comply with the city's laws they should sit with the city and go to the proper channels. >> construction of the bleachers is wrapping up it will stay up for the football season but depending on what happens they may have to come right back down. >> are you feeling the need for speed? you'll soon be allowed to do so on rural roads and illinois. the bears are back and
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♪ fixodent, and forget it. big changes at a south side education institute. today was the first day of coed class is at the hales franciscan high school. it had always been a catholic school for young african-american men for 50 years. this morning the first female students walk through its doors. the school board voted earlier this year to go coed the decision was made partly to
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increase enrollment and revenue and because parents want their daughters to have access to the hales franciscan education program. >> the governor signed a new law this afternoon increasing the speed limit of 65 to 70 in rural interstates. it will be effective january 1st. the governor signed a law despite previous concerns over safety. >> it will be a little bit warmer and downright hot next week. temperatures are currently
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nationals who are in town to play the cubs tonight. the cubs offense exploded tonight. they had five home runs today. they were victorious 11-1. last night at alex rodriguez was deliberately hit in the ribs by ex cubs pitcher ryan dempster this seems to be just plain angry at a route for the drug stuff. it backfired on the red sox rodriguez would come back and hit a home run off ryan dempster later on. afterwards ryan dempster said he did not
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