Works Cited

Baca, Stacey, and Charles Thomas. "11 Killed And 11 Wounded In 48 Hours In Chicago

Shootings." Abc News Channel 7, ABC in WLS-TV Chicago, 16 Feb. 2017,

abc7chicago.com/news/11-killed-11-wounded-in-48-hours-in-chicago-

shootings/1757827/. Accessed 17 Feb. 2017. Reporters apart of ABC news Stacey Baca

and Charles Thomas brings attention to gang violence in Chicago and killings taking

place in mostly North- Lawn dale Chicago. Chicago is rapidly building up its murder rate

with majority being young adults or children. This will be helpful in showing who is

being effected and where the violence is mainly taking place.

Eligion, John. "Boredom, Broke and Armed." NY Times, New York Times Company, 22 Dec.

2016, www.nytimes.com/2016/12/22/us/chicago-gang-violence.html. Accessed 28 Feb.

2017. Chicago one of the most dangerous cities in Illinois holds the largest murder rate as

of 2017. Most gangs are created by either boredom, the fight to have money to eat and

support for your family. Also, the anger of losing a loved one wanting to retaliate but

wanting the cycle to stop, producing enough money for your next high is extremely

important. Gangs members tell NY Times the reason why gangs are created why they

retaliate. This will be useful to show why gangs are around and the reason or cause for

gang violence.

Fessenden, Ford. "Chicago Murder Problem." NY Times, edited by Ford Fessenden, New York

Times, 27 May 2016, www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/18/us/chicago-murder-

problem.html. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017. The New York Times research into the murder

problem within Chicago, Illinois comparing it to other violent cities such as Brooklyn,

NY. Graphs and charts show the higher rate of homicides, longest stretch without
 homicide, and the lenient gun control Chicago has for its residents. This will be useful to

show how the rates of Chicago compares to other cities in breaking the charts with gun

violence.

Lott, John R., Jr. "Why Chicago Crime Problem is Growing." National Review, 4 Feb. 2017,

www.nationalreview.com/article/444610/chicago-crime-police-gun-control-laws-

growing-crime. Accessed 3 Mar. 2017. National Review supports the issue of Chicago

murders rising in the year of 2017 as the mayor seat was filled by Rahm Emmaunel and

many suggest he caused the issue by taking detective stations out of the city of Chicago

therefore criminals who are causing crime aren't being caught. This will be useful to

show democrats opinion on why the violence is growing in Chicago.

Martin, Michaael. "Examining the Reasons for Chicago Violence." NPR, edited by Michael

Martin, 3 Sept. 2016, www.npr.org/2016/09/03/492549546/examining-the-reasons-for-

chicagos-violence. Accessed 23 Mar. 2017. In the article Examining the reasons for

Chicago violence a group discussion is held on what causes the gun/gang violence in

Chicago. Chicago has been a violent city for decades and generations back when there

was Al capone. Instead of pointing a finger at this or that person we should look at the

past events in the legend of Chicago. This will be helpful to show the events that led to

violence in Chicago.

Social Media Contributes to Gang Violence. Performance by Desmond Patton, Newsy, 2016.

Newsy interviews Professor Desmond Patton on his goal to stop violence and talk upon

what he believes is the issue. Social media plays a big role in gang rivalry as in the

individual or group can post, tweet, and share gang related topics causing them to be a

target on mainly twitter. It takes a simple argument to strike up another conflict between
 gangs resolving in death or most likely a teenager in such cases. Professor Patton walks

the streets of chicago and joing ex gangs to help find future targets. This would be useful

to show where the violence is created and where arguments are happening and possibly

the monitoring of sites such as twitter will lower the rate of violence

Sweeney, Annie. "Chicago Cop Pens Play to Capture the Violence All Too Common on City

Streets." Chicago Tribune, 20 Feb. 2017, www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-chicago-

police-officer-playwright-20170220-story.html. Accessed 22 Feb. 2017. Sweeney the

author of Chicago tribune reports a former cop Denise Gathings who deals with the

grieving of parents, friends. and family who have lost somebody to gun violence on a

daily basis thought of an idea to bring children or anyone interested to create a play to

physically show the audience the after math of violence and reach out to the community.

This will be useful for showing many people in the community are trying to come

together to keep children out of gang actives and show what a family or friend will feel

when losing a loved one to gang violence

Tone, Twilight, performer. Put The Guns Down. 2016. Popular artists such as Katie Got Bandz,

King Louie, Common, Lil herb and much more create a track to help the youth or gangs

in communities of Chicago to put the guns down. Chicago radio stations such as 92.3 and

107.5 brought up the movement in 2014 to create a motto "Put the guns down" hoping if

certain music can cause an action of picking up a gun maybe music about putting them

down will make a difference. This will be helpful to show radio stations are wanting to

play music to encourage the stop of gun violence to its listeners.