Chicago Residents Fight to Reclaim Streets From Illicit Drug Dealings

Hugo Limon (left), Hugo Limon Jr., and Patricia Carrillo stand on their block in the Humboldt Park neighborhood on the West Side of Chicago on April 11, 2022. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times

Over the past four years, Patricia Carrillo and her husband Hugo Limon have done everything they could to steer drug sellers away from their block.

They took pictures of illicit drug dealings and shared them with police, they mustered the courage to meet with drug crew bosses, and they went to court to plead with judges to lock them up.