Road to ruin
Lawmakers need to start confronting the costs of stricter drug laws before passing them, said Kathleen Kane-Willis, the director of Roosevelt University's Illinois Consortium on Drug Policy. “It's sort of like the pension obligation,” she said. “You …
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The living toll of guns: Broken bodies and minds
Each year, more than a thousand Chicagoans—many of them children or teens—are wounded by gunfire, collateral damage in bloody skirmishes over gang turf and drugs, girls, or simple disagreements over nothing much at all. … They don't see the big …
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