Trauma In The Trenches Of Gun-Weary Chicago

The Long-Lasting Emotional Toll Of Violence In Chicago
CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 01: Workers remove the body of a 24-year-old man who was shot and killed on South Eberhart Avenue on the city's South Side as Chicago police investigate on April 1, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. According to published reports, the man was the 73rd homicide victim and the 39th victim under the age of 25 in Chicago in 2013. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)
CHICAGO, IL - APRIL 01: Workers remove the body of a 24-year-old man who was shot and killed on South Eberhart Avenue on the city's South Side as Chicago police investigate on April 1, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois. According to published reports, the man was the 73rd homicide victim and the 39th victim under the age of 25 in Chicago in 2013. (Photo by Scott Olson/Getty Images)

CHICAGO— Keauna Wise knows death could come at any moment. So she waits with knots in her stomach and tears in her eyes. She’s often breathless, with anxiety that climbs from the bottom of her feet up into her gut.

Death comes often in her neighborhood on the far south side of this city, mostly by bullets. It comes with a bang on long, hot summer nights.

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