Englewood Residents Protest City's Inaction

By Margaret Lyons in News on Sep 26, 2007 5:35PM

Englewood residents held a demonstration yesterday on 74th and Green, protesting the city's lack of effort to curb drug dealing and prostitution in the area. And the Defender reports that Englewood has some of the worst air quality in the city and the highest incidence of lead-poisoning cases of any neighborhood in Chicago — 17.3 percent of kids tested in 2003 had elevated levels.

Yesterday's protest was organized through the Chicago branch of ACORN (Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now), whose members say the police and their alderman, the 17th Ward's Latasha Thomas, ignore them. Organizer William Stone told the Trib that "we make police reports and we want them responded to." Seems to be a common problem on the South Side these days.

"Generations of Success Rooted in Englewood" by David Schalliol.