A man whose most memorable contribution to Chicago was founding aWest Side street gang made headlines last week when he was shot sixtimes near Garfield Park.
On that same day, 7-year-old Ana Mateo was killed by stray ganggunfire in the Pilsen neighborhood.
Both stories are big news because they put the spotlight on theviolence that has given Chicago the reputation that our minorityneighborhoods are gang-infested pockets of despair. Personally, I wasappalled that the attack on Willie Lloyd was played as if he had beena statesman rather than a thug.
And I'm afraid that in doing so, we put the substance of gangleaders on equal footing with the substance of elected …
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