Commentary: Young people on the South and West sides should have things to do in their neighborhoods because all kids and teenagers should be able to have fun close to home, no matter their ZIP code.
on the last warm weekend, largely in my legislative district at a South Side beach and in Millennium Park, are reminiscent of something that has occurred in this city for more than a decade. I remember being in law school in 2010 and the collective angst that many of my nonnative classmates felt about the Red Line stop at State Street and Chicago Avenue because of the droves of young people who hung out there.
Furthermore, Chicago has a disturbing history of shutting young people out of public spaces, from removing basketball rims and backboards from parks, to downtown curfews, to the failure toAdvertisement These young people belong to someone, they sleep in someone’s home and they sit in someone’s classroom and very often in someone’s church on Sundays. Our question to them needs to be: What do they need?
We have to return to some form of community cohesion, which has dwindled over generations. I often say when my parents were growing up, if there was a house on fire on their block, neighbors would call the Fire Department and say, “Our block is on fire.” When I was growing up, if there were a house on fire on my block, neighbors would reach out and say, “Your house is on fire.
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