Word: roseland
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mellow Street resident reported that, while walking on the Roseland Street sidewalk, he stepped on a manhole cover that flipped over. He fell in and sustained injuries to his right leg and left...
Neighbors in the black working-class neighborhood called Roseland still remember the day Janie Fields moved into a two-story, three-bedroom house with her brood: nearly all her 10 children and 30 grandchildren lived with her at one time or another. "They are dirty and noisy, and they are ruining the neighborhood," complained a neighbor. Residents launched an unsuccessful petition drive to force Fields out. "All those kids are little troublemakers," said Carl McClinton, 23, who lives down the street. "This is the kind of neighborhood where we all look after each other's kids, but they...
...ambulance!" her nephew had cried. And then she saw her husband standing over the body of her daughter Shavon, 14. "My 12-year-old had to call the ambulance. I just collapsed." The family had been in the middle of an evening barbecue at their home in the Roseland section of Chicago when gunfire from what was believed to be a gang-initiation rite sent the fatal bullet into Shavon. "There's no word to say how I feel," says Dean. "Whatever I say, it's not going to bring my daughter back...
...others in the crime-ridden, gang-infested Roseland community would have called Robert ("Yummy") Sandifer a baby. The 4-ft., 8-in., 68-lb. runt of a child, whose nickname came from his love of cookies and junk food, ran with a gang called the Black Disciples. Pedaling through the streets on his seatless black bike, in high-price tennis shoes and big, baggy clothes, Sandifer -- coiffed in what neighbors described as his "nappy" hairstyle -- intimidated the neighborhood with his use of knives, fire and guns. Often accompanied by four other youths just as small, he would steal, sell drugs...
...Roseland no one expects the gang violence to end. "Summer ain't up yet," says a man named Darryl, 27. "It's going to get worse than this." Just before Shavon Dean was killed, there had been night after night of AK-47 sprayings. The neighborhood is quiet now, Darryl explains, only because of the police and media attention. Still, the community is in shock and in mourning over the 11-year-old killer and his 14-year-old victim. "He was the baddest of bad," says Jeffrey Rowry, a local resident, "and she was the sweetest of sweet...