Living Around Gun Violence - Launched Feb. 8, 2017 - Full multimedia experience: audio, stills, text and or video: Go to zReportage.com to see more - Yesterday, these blocks were homicide scenes. The day after a fatal shooting, police tape is gone and residents live, work and play. More Chicagoans are shot and killed than there are days in the year, but there's a lot going on in these neighborhoods around the violence. A persistent reality for some of Chicago's toughest neighborhoods, violence unnerved far reaches of the city in 2016 as shootings and homicides soared. Not since the drug-fueled bloodshed of the mid-1990s had the city witnessed such a toll. Some neighborhoods, already scarred and gutted by years of violence, suffered inordinately. But the danger spread into more neighborhoods, too, and randomness became an all-too-familiar element to many shootings. Grim milestones added up: The deadliest month in 23 years. The deadliest day in 13 years. 4,300 people shot. As the year wound down, with the promise of a new year coming soon, a violent Christmas Day.
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Jan 21, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - Women talk in the 600 block of East 51st Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood the day after Angelo Porter, 23, was shot and killed on the corner.
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Jan 18, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - DEACON DWAIN MILAN, 72, (center) and other church members pray Sunday, at the Rock of Ages Missionary Baptist Church. Cornelius Hunter, 24, was shot and killed in front of the church in the 1200 block of South Pulaski Road in North Lawndale the day before.
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Mar 16, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - JIM WILSON repairs the mirror on his car in the 5700 block of West North Avenue in the North Austin neighborhood the day after Andre Chatman, 23, and Carey Hollis, 28, were shot and killed nearby. The car they were driving then crashed into the pole behind Wilson, in front of his uncle's computer repair store.
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Apr 2, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - JAHMAL PATTERSON, 18, LAMONT BARNES JR., 19, and DONTRELL MAGGETTE, 16, play basketball in Marquette Park at the 3000 block of West 71st Street in the Chicago Lawn neighborhood the day after a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed across the street.
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Apr 9, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - CRECENSIO CAMPOS gives his daughter VERENICE CAMPOS, 10, a push as she pulls her little sister ALELI, 4, in an alley along the 2700 block of West Bloomingdale Avenue in the Logan Square neighborhood the day after a 24-year-old man was shot and killed there.
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Apr 21, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - HARRIETTE ROBINSON waits for the No. 3 CTA bus in the 6000 block of South King Drive in the Washington Park neighborhood the day after Marshawn Flemon, 18, was shot and killed there.
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Apr 30, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - A four-year-old boy rides his tricycle in the 4800 block of South Winchester Ave in the Back of the Yards neighborhood the day after Ismael Lopez, 24, was shot and killed in this intersection near a ''Mothers for Peace'' mural.
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LENEAR BAILEY, PAUL SIGGMAN, TIM AHERN, MARCUS JONES and BRIAN WALLACE hang out in the 3100 block of West 64th Street in the Marquette Park neighborhood the day after their friend Nyerere Lloyd, 26, was shot and killed.
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May 25, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - JED and LIDA SCHENKIER and their children ATLAS, 2, and RAVI, six months, greet their neighbor JOSHUA QUINONES, 8, in the 3300 block of West Division Street in the Humboldt Park neighborhood the day after a 28-year-old man was shot and killed.
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May 26, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - JESSICA HOLMAN, 32, holds her daughter BREANNA HOWERY, 5, on her mother's porch in the 4900 block of West Erie Street in the Austin neighborhood the day after a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed on the corner behind them.
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May 31, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - Midway movers toss out an empty box as they load Krista Bauman's belongings in the 900 block of West Oakdale Avenue in Lakeview the day after Kevin O'Malley, 25, was shot and killed under the ''L'' tracks.
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Jun 24, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - CYNIA DAVIS, 5, gets a slushie at Jimmy's Food and Deli in the 200 block of East 35th Street in the Bronzeville neighborhood the day after four people were shot outside including Christan Barlow, 52, who was killed.
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Jul 1, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - TUBUKU EVANS, 15, hits a baseball in the 11100 block of South Hamlet Avenue in the Morgan Park neighborhood the day after Avery Williams, 22, was shot and killed driving a car.
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Jul 2, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - Balloons mark a memorial outside the 16th & Millard Food and Dollar Plus store in North Lawndale the day after a 50-year-old employee was shot and killed in Chicago.
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Jul 16, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - DANIELA ZELAYA, 14, gets help from her sister SKARLETH, 11, and mother ODALIS ZAPATA before posing for pictures in her quinceanera dress at Riis Park in the 6300 block of West Fullerton Avenue in the Belmont Cragin neighborhood the day after a 16-year-old boy was shot and killed in Chicago.
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Jul 18, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - TAYLOR ALI BELLO, 11, sorts through toys at his garage sale in an alley behind the 3600 block of North St. Louis Avenue in the Irving Park neighborhood the day after Manuel Arizaga, 34, was shot and killed in Chicago.
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Aug 3, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - JAY and MARIA FELDMAN work at their restaurant Margie's in the Austin neighborhood the day after a man was killed and four other people were shot at a party in the 4800 block of West Kamerling Avenue behind their restaurant.
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Aug 15, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - CONNIE CLARK makes bubbles for children during a block party in the 3500 block of West Carroll Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood the day after a 27-year-old man was found dead with gunshot wounds in a car that crashed at the end of the block.
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Aug 15, 2015 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - A Chicago Police officer congratulates performers during block party in the 3500 block of West Carroll Avenue in the East Garfield Park neighborhood the day after a 27-year-old man was found dead with gunshot wounds in a car that crashed at the end of the block.
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Jan 5, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - RICARDO SALGADO, 25, works at his father Angel's auto repair shop at 18th and Leavitt streets in the Pilsen neighborhood the day after a 33-year-old man was shot and killed across the street in Chicago.
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Jan 27, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - ROSEMARIE RODRIGUEZ looks out the window of her restaurant Tee's Snack Shop at the scene near Madison and Leamington in South Austin where Cory Brown, 33, was shot and killed the day before in Chicago.
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Feb 14, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - GERARDO SILVA, 37, brushes snow off his car in the 4700 block of South Laflin Street in the Back of the Yards neighborhood the day after Lorenzo Garcia, 24, was shot and killed.
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March 9, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - Daysha Wright's cousin TRAYVONTA HOUSTON (left), 20, uploads photos of the memorial to Facebook before heading home from a vigil in the 2100 block of West Maypole Avenue in the Near West Side neighborhood of Chicago.
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Mar 10, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - URAYOAN MEDINA, 18, skateboards after school on the triangle in the 1200 block of North Milwaukee Avenue in the Noble Square neighborhood the day after Cesar Perez, 19, was shot and killed.
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Apr 20, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - DION ROBINSON, 17, practices a stride jump from the pool deck during lifeguard training class in Foster Park in Auburn Gresham the day after Damond Dawson, 23, was shot and killed outside.
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May 17, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - YUSUF UMAR (left) recites the call to prayer while SABIH UDDIN works in the office at the Muslim Community Center in the 4300 block of North Elston Avenue on in the Irving Park neighborhood the day after a 28-year-old man was shot and killed outside.
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Jul 10, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - DEWAYNE JOHNSON dives to tag LEE BOYD during a Real Men of Englewood softball league game in Ogden Park in Englewood the day after a 21-year-old was shot and killed overnight.
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Sep 25, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - ANGELA RANKINS and her son EDDION, 9, talk on their front stoop in the 2600 block of West Wilcox Street in East Garfield Park the day after a 37-year-old man was shot and killed on the sidewalk.
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Dec 4, 2016 - Chicago, Illinois, U.S. - DWAYNE WILMORE, 7, CHRISTOPHER WARE, Jr., 4, and TREMMELL HOWARD, 5, play in the snow in the 6300 block of South King Drive in Woodlawn the day after 23-year-old man was shot and killed in the restaurant across the street.
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