He was a senior with college dreams. Two years after being paralyzed by gunfire, Jonathan Annicks pushes forward
CHICAGO - A young man in a wheelchair is racing down a Chicago sidewalk.
His mother trots behind him, trying to keep up. Some days, as he heads to school and she's off to her job as a bank trust officer, she pushes him, over the cracked concrete or through the snow, but he's on his own this morning.
He whizzes past the cotton candy vendor, Nino's Tire Shop, Guerrero's Pizza. At a curb, he pops a wheelie, makes a fast, tight circle and steers in a new direction.
Only a couple of years ago, when he was a senior at Walter Payton College Prep, an elite Chicago high school, he was a runner and a cyclist. He still likes speed.
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