Chicago murder victim s mom urges action on crime crisis, calls on Pritzker to declare emergency
By Charles Creitz
Chicago murder victim s mother urges action, calls on Pritzker to declare emergency
Pamela Bosley, whose son Terrell was shot dead outside his church, is calling on Gov. JB Pritzker to declare a gun violence state-of-emergency in Chicago.
CHICAGO - The mother of a young man murdered on Chicago s South Side urged action from city and Illinois state leaders, telling Fox News on Friday that the most hard-hit communities in this current crime wave can fix the problems themselves if only given the opportunity and the proper resources.
Chicago murder victim s mom calls on Pritzker to declare emergency amid crime crisis
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Writer’s Notebook Poetry Where Nonfiction Fails
Not long ago, I flew to Chicago with a list of phone numbers, an interview itinerary with several social workers, ER doctors, and victims of gun violence, and a book project that was already unraveling, although I didn’t know that yet.
[Matt Donovan, photo by Brandan Sodor]
More than a year into writing a journalistic exploration of guns in America, I had an agent, deadlines, punchy chapter subtitles, and a two-sentence handwritten mantra pinned above my desk:
Figure it out. Get to work.
Given the structure and premise of my planned book, “getting to work” often meant jetting off to different locations to ask a single pre-determined question about guns. A few weeks prior to arriving in Chicago, I’d traveled to Cody, Wyoming, to speak with teachers, parents, and the town’s sheriff about a new proposal to arm public school staff. Soon, I’d be spending the entire day with a ballistic detective in Cleveland. And my misg