Combating violence
Combating violence
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The Chicago Sun-Times reports that 40% of the shootings this year have happened around the West Side, in Austin and Garfield Park, where your Church is located. Are you hearing that residents want to leave? Are people afraid to come to Church? Rev. Ira Acree, Pastor of Greater St. John Bible Church, answers some of these pressing questions. (Flickr/Gideon Tsang)