Word: neighborhood
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...street corner in a gritty Boston neighborhood, a truck driver leans out his window and hollers a question at congressional candidate Raymond Flynn. "Hey, Ray! Can I have...
...steady thump of rap music, the folks on South Parnell Avenue like to sit on their stoops nursing cans of Old Milwaukee and watching the cars go by. There's not a whole lot else to do on Parnell, a dead-end street tucked away in the blighted neighborhood of Englewood on Chicago's South Side--especially when you're out of work and out of patience trying to find it. So residents spend their time sitting outside and getting the lay of the land by scoping out passing cars. They see somebody in an old clunker and know...
While the two boys were hustling up change that afternoon, Chicago police were out canvassing the neighborhood for a killer. And when they were finished, R. and E. (their real names have not been released because they are minors) would get the rap for the murder of 11-year-old Ryan Harris, whose body had been discovered in the high weeds of a vacant lot, her head smashed with a rock, her mouth stuffed with her panties. There were signs of sexual assault. Police officers had brought R. and E. in for questioning as witnesses, and when the two boys...
...want to believe it's babies [that committed the crime], but it's babies," says Detective Stanley Turner of the Chicago police department. "We don't want to believe it, but if it's true, it's true." So what were the detectives doing back in the neighborhood? "We're making sure it's airtight, that's what we're doing," he said...
...neighborhood skunks...