The organization Increase the Peace focuses on pulling young people away from gangs, offering them educational and future job opportunities, and reducing violence in neighborhoods such as Back of the Yards, Little Village, Pilsen, Gage Park, and Brighton Park, among others. Its founder, Berto Aguayo, managed to escape from a gang, is about to graduate as a lawyer from Northwestern University, and was a fellow at the Chicago Community Trust
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