In Violent Chicago, Young Men Brave Bullets to Reach Summer Safe Havens

Christopher Bradley, 15, listens during a summer program session at Free Lunch Academy in the South Shore neighborhood on the South Side of Chicago on July 26, 2021. Cara Ding/The Epoch Times

CHICAGO—Summer is the most violent season for Chicago, and it is also the most bountiful.

Money from all directions is poured into the violent neighborhoods to prop up summer programs of all kinds, to create safe havens for innocent kids, and to steer troubled young men away from street life.