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IN BETWEEN: BOSTON EXPLOSIONS
Top : An American flag is flown at half-staff at the Kluczynski Federal Building in Chicago to honor victims of the bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15. President Barack Obama ordered American flags at the White House and other public buildings to be lowered as a “mark of respect for the victims of the senseless acts of violence.” —Photograph by Lucio Villa
Bottom: Two pedestrians in the Loop lock their eyes on a television broadcasting updates on bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon on April 15. As of the following morning, the explosions killed three and injured more than 170, according to Boston police officials. —Photograph by Jonathan Gibby
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ON ASSIGNMENT: GHOSTS OF ENGLEWOOD
Leftover signs from Hal Baskin’s 2011 campaign for 16th Ward Alderman remain on a boarded entrance of the South Side Masonic Temple in Englewood. The building, which once housed a clubhouse and an auditorium for the fraternal organization, has been abandoned since the mid-1980s.
Photograph by Jonathan Gibby
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ON ASSIGNMENT: SALVATION AND RECOVERY
In early March, The Salvation Army Mobile Outreach Unit was in danger of being kicked out of Uptown. The unit, a service of The Salvation Army Harbor Light of Chicago, offers on-site mental health and substance abuse assessments, referrals and hot meals to those in need, and provides transportation to a treatment facility.
After several meetings between 46th Ward Alderman James Cappelman and representatives from The Salvation Army, protests by community members and a flurry of media attention, the two parties came to an agreement that allows the unit to continue providing services in Uptown.
Full story and photosPhotographs by Jonathan Gibby
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IN BETWEEN: STOOP DOGS
Two dogs guard a Wicker Park home on March 31, 2013.
Photograph by Jonathan Gibby
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ON ASSIGNMENT: HUNDREDS PROTEST SCHOOL CLOSINGS
Hundreds of people, led by the Chicago Teachers Union, marched from Daley Plaza to City Hall on March 27 to protest school closings. According to Catalyst Chicago, more than 100 protesters were detained and then ticketed after refusing to disburse from the southbound lanes of LaSalle Street in a showing of civil disobedience.
Photographs by Jonathan Gibby
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ON ASSIGNMENT: COMMUNITY PROTESTS LOSS OF DIVERSITY IN 46th WARD
Residents of the Chateau Hotel joined the Lakeview Action Coalition and the Organization of the NorthEast in a march from 46th Ward Alderman James Cappleman’s office to his residence in Uptown on Thursday, March 21, to lament what they say is a loss of diversity. They point to Cappleman’s actions regarding affordable housing, education and crime. He hasn’t defended low-income tenants at the Chateau, spoken up against possible school closings in the neighborhood or worked with local groups on violence prevention efforts, they say.
Photographs by Lucio Villa
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ON ASSIGNMENT: FUNERAL FOR MURDERED INFANT
Pallbearers carry the remains of 6-month-old Jonylah Emani Watkins after her funeral service on March 19 in Chicago. Jonylah was shot on March 11 in the Woodlawn neighborhood on the city’s South Side and died the next day at the University of Chicago’s Comer Children’s Hospital. Police said that her father, who was also shot, appeared to be the target.
Photograph by Jonathan Gibby
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ON ASSIGNMENT: COMMUNITY MOURNS DEATH OF 6-MONTH-OLD BABY GIRL
About 200 people attended a press conference and vigil Tuesday night honoring Jonylah Watkins, a 6-month-old baby, who was shot multiple times Monday afternoon while her father was changing her diaper in the South Side’s Woodlawn neighborhood. She died in the hospital on Tuesday.
Photographs by Lucio Villa
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ON ASSIGNMENT: IMMIGRATION RALLY
Hundreds marched from Union Park to Federal Plaza on March 10 during the Coming Out of the Shadows rally. Participants demanded a moratorium on deportations and shared stories about growing up undocumented and how their families are separated by deportation and detention.
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ON ASSIGNMENT: IMMIGRATION RALLY
Hundreds marched through the streets of Chicago on Sunday, chanting, “Out of the shadows, into the streets—undocumented, unafraid and unstoppable!” The protesters were rallying in support of people who are currently in deportation proceedings or in detention centers, as well as those who do not qualify for deferred action. The march was part of a month-long series of National Coming Out of the Shadows events, organized by the Immigrant Youth Justice League, a Chicago-based organization led by undocumented immigrants.
Photographs by Jonathan Gibby
