NEWS & NOTES

I see where it's now MAYOR RAHM EMANUEL'S fault that the residents of the jungle are killing each other at a record pace this summer. last time i checked, he had allowed about two million dollars worth of police overtime to the jungle neighborhoods and crime was down from october thru march but then the warm weather arrived, the killing season began, AS USUAL.

again, these people in the jungle are uneducated animals who don't have the intelligence to moderate an argument through any other means but gunfire. IT WILL NEVER CHANGE but it will always be used as a race card when there's a black candidate for the mayor's office.

over three dozen people have been slain in the jungle since EASTER SUNDAY and over two hundred fifty wounded but most of the shooters get away with it because 'nobody knows nuttin' and everyone is blind. just last weekend the total was 13 & 58 in a 48 hour period!

admit it.  when you see the headline "2 DEAD, 9 WOUNDED ON SOUTH SIDE", you simply wet your index finger and turn the page of the tribune or press "next story" on your IPAD. we are so numb to the violence on the south & west sides and rightfully so.  they live in a world that is nowhere close to ours and quite frankly, we don't care anymore.  stay in your filthy neighborhoods, continue to kill each other and don't leave cook county.

everytime i read a story about a black man or woman who escaped the jungle because they didn't want to part of the violence, i smile a bit because then i know it's possible if someone is willing to pay the price. a recent story told of Samuel, who convinced his mother to move him and his two brothers to section 8 housing in bellwood when he was fifteen years old. samuel worked a part-time job all through high school and then TWO JOBS so he could go to college. 

it was a long, tough road for samuel but today he's an intern at RUSH PRESPRYTERIAN HOSPITAL in chicago. "i had plenty of chances to join a gang, sell dope or run guns but all of those are dead ends.  it wasn't easy for us to relocate away from friends & family but i truly believe it saved the lives of our entire famly. since we moved away 15 years ago, over thirty of our friends have been shot & killed in our old neighborhood ." 

that's why I KNOW it can be done but they have to be willing to say good-bye to the jungle and relocate. there's public housing all over the entire state of illinois.  

just heard the news.  two more shot tonight in englewood. police are investigating but have no leads. what a shock.