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Grief without remedy: The effort to stop the War Zone on Chicago’s South Shore Community

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By Mark Clements (Associate Editor, The Debrief)Overall, there were 762 murders in Chicago in 2016. It was the deadest year in nearly two decades. For example, in 2016 on Father’s Day weekend 12 murders were committed and Christmas weekend 12 murders out of 27 reported shootings. On New Year’s Eve, residents and activist the city carried 800 wooden…