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Chicago violence alters lives

Chicago violence alters lives

By Photo illustration by Nick Bosshart | November 7, 2016

Students laid out tombstones Thursday along Lucinda Avenue to signify the number of people that have been murdered in Chicago in the past five years. Above, names of people lost to homicide this year in Chicago are listed. There have been 632 homicides in Chicago so far this year, according to reports by the Chicago Tribune.