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A cure for urban violence right under our noses

Cities have multiple personalities. I am reminded of that with bracing clarity by what some Chicagoans are calling the "weekend from hell."

It was the weekend in which the mammoth Lollapalooza festival drew tens of thousands of music fans to make joyful noise in downtown Chicago while some of the city's lowest-income and highest-crime neighborhoods endured the worst weekendlong surge in shootings in at least two years. Why?

Just when things were looking up for

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