The Brickyard: Struggling to Escape the Drug Life

The Brickyard: Struggling to Escape the Drug Life
Residents of The Brickyard
The Brickyard: Struggling to Escape the Drug Life
Residents of The Brickyard

The Brickyard: Struggling to Escape the Drug Life

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Over the past year, we’ve introduced you to a subculture of people who live on the dusty grounds of a legitimate brick salvage company at Cicero Ave. in Chicago’s West Side called The Brickyard. By embedding himself there, sociologist and special contributor Greg Scott brought snapshots of the history, culture and economy of this place. Today, Dr. Scott has the final installment of The Brickyard: a story of the struggle to escape demons.