Word: cabrini
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accounts, Hillary's two brothers are colorful, likable men. At 45, Tony has a job history that includes stints as an insurance salesman, a prison guard, a sort of cable-service repo man (during which he drew gunfire at Chicago's Cabrini-Green housing project) and a private investigator. Five years ago, he married Nicole Boxer, daughter of California Senator Barbara Boxer, in an elegant Rose Garden ceremony. His big brother Hugh, 49, a bearlike man who once played football for Penn State, served as a Peace Corps volunteer and spent more than a decade as an assistant public defender...
Even in an era where horrific violence seems an everyday occurrence, last year's story of GIRL X, the nine-year-old who was found raped, beaten and poisoned in a stairwell of Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, seemed especially affecting. About the only bright note was the speed at which contributions, many as little as $5 or $10, poured in to help. Now one of the principal fund raisers, BEVERLY REED, an unemployed single mother of five, finds herself the target of the Illinois attorney general's office over her handling of $310,000 she collected...
Even in an era where horrific violence seems an everyday occurrence, last year's story of Girl X, the nine-year-old who was found raped, beaten and poisoned in a stairwell of Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project, seemed especially affecting. About the only bright note was the speed at which contributions, many as little as $5 or $10, poured in to help...
Brother Bill is standing with the gang members on their usual gathering spot outside a building in Cabrini-Green, the place where drug users looking for marijuana, crack cocaine or heroin can always find it. The air is frigid but charged with the warm sound of horseplay and laughter...
When fighting erupts, Brother Bill has his routine down pat. From his Evanston home, it's a 35-min. drive to Cabrini. En route, he pulls on his robe and begins prayer. Upon arriving, he walks briskly to the scene, where the shooting has usually already begun. His pale blue robe aflutter, he stands in the center of gang gunfire. He says he can hear the crack of guns from snipers in the buildings as well as see shooters running on the ground or ducking in and out of entryways. But thoughts of his safety never cross his mind...