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Crime victims' families say Chicago violence is a problem, but sending in troops isn't the answer

Crime victims' families say Chicago violence is a problem, but sending in troops isn't the answer

By Swedan Margen

Culture

Delphine Cherry knows as well as anyone how intractable violent crime is in Chicago. In 1992, her teenage daughter was gunned down in one of the city's toniest neighborhoods - a bystander caught up in a gang shootout. Twenty years later in a suburb just south of the city, it claimed her son.

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