Scores of Chicago children are shot, knifed and beaten on the city streets every year. The community responds with renewed policing, anti-violence programs and money to throw at the problem.
Since last fall, the Tribune has been looking deeply at how the city's teens have been seeking safe passage on Chicago's streets.
Today, we're talking about the problem together.
Moderated by WVON’s Cliff Kelley, panelists include Chicago Public Schools leadership, CeaseFire Illinois director Tio Hardiman, University of Chicago Crime Lab director Dr. Jens Ludwig, Andres Rojas of the Brighton Park Neighborhood Council, Asia Black of the Mikva Challenge and Tribune reporter Deborah Shelton.
If you can, join us from 2-4 p.m. Sunday, April 25, when the Chicago Tribune will host a panel discussion and Q & A on youth violence at the DuSable Museum of African American History, 740 E. 56th Place.
We also will attempt to track the discussion here on this Trib Nation post. Attendees savvy with Twitter's mobile applications are being encouraged to live tweet the event by using the hashtag #SafePassage. Adding that text to a Twitter tweet allows the filter below to find the tweets and display them together.
Good content depends on participation. We've asked high school journalists, college journalism majors and audience members to add their thoughts. It's an experiment we hope will provide a unique insight to the discussion. Their feed appears here:
-- Trib Nation