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Aspen Ideas Festival
Stopping the Violence in Chicago: Lessons for America’s Citi
Season 2
Episode 81
Like cities around the country, Chicago has been plagued by an epidemic of nearly constant bloodletting. What strategies have been most promising? What insights can we take from the local leaders who are losing friends, students, and community members with horrifying regularity? What do they think it will take for meaningful change to happen?
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