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Article: After shootings, Rogers Park finds hope in community
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- Chicago Sun-Times
- Article date:
- July 11, 1999
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When the gunshots rang out last weekend, I feared the worst for my
neighborhood, Rogers Park.
It wasn't so much the gunman himself that scared me, although
initially I did worry he might hit again.
I worried that those bullets could shatter the sense of community.
When I moved here 12 years ago, it was to be close to the lake, but
it wasn't too long after that Rogers Park captured my heart for other
reasons. You'd be hard-pressed to find another corner of the country
as diverse as Rogers Park. Just about every race, religion and
ethnicity under the sun has a home here. You don't have to hide or
worry you'll stand out. You can't be different in Rogers Park
because everybody is different.
And ...