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Chicago at the Crossroad
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Chicago at the Crossroad

2019-06-01 · 60 min · ★ 4.0

Crime · Documentary

While gun violence was on the decline in most major US cities, why did it continue to increase in Chicago's segregated communities? What is known about the systems that created the problem, the laws that isolated it, and the policies that abandoned it? Using dramatic footage, including interviews with residents on the front lines over the last 15 years, this documentary opens a rare historical window into the systematic creation of poverty stricken communities plagued by gun violence. 

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Directors
Brian Schodorf
Production companies
Schodorf Films
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United States of America
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GLCSelf
Jesse JacksonJesse JacksonSelf
Leon RogersSelf
Phenom UniversalSelf
Malik YusefSelf

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