A city in crisis seeks answers
(MCT) — A decade and some 4,500 Chicago homicides separate the shooting deaths of 15-year-old Hadiya Pendleton and 12-year-old Rene Guillen, two tragedies that in many ways bookend the city's up-and-down struggle to contain gun violence.
President Barack Obama returns to his hometown Friday to put Hadiya's slaying center stage in a growing national debate over firearms and senseless bloodshed, a connection he also stressed earlier this week in his annual State of the Union address.
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