“The cumulative cost of one homicide to a city is around $10 million,” writes Thomas Abt in his book "Bleeding Out." But for the victims, witnesses, and survivors of homicide and gun violence, the cost is incalculable.
South side natives and North Shore residents of every ethnicity imaginable stood side by side, weathering the cold to get tickets to an unimaginable moment: a speech commemorating our first black President and his eight years in office.
