Community areas of Chicago

Pui Tak Center: 2216 S. Wentworth Pui Tak Center was once the On Leong Merchants Association Building where the On leong group used to be. The society also once resided in Mott Street in New York's Chinatown. The Chinese started coming to Chicago in smaller numbers after 1870, After the 20th century less than 1,200. Until the 1940s when federal laws only allowed men to enter with only a few exceptions, chinatowns over america were populated with chinese men. Groups called Tongs were formed…

enforcement. The crimes that happen online are just as important as those that happen on the streets of Chicago. More needs to be done to prevent and stop this crime from…

Connecting the Community through Food Scraps (Mid Term Goal) Whether or not UIC decides to utilize an anaerobic digester to process food waste a portion should be captured for compost production. This could be used to cut costs on landscaping compost needs, for expansions of UIC’s Heritage Community Gardens, and to provide compost for local community gardeners. A vacant lot on UIC’s west side provides a opportunity to turn a desolate field that separates organizations into a community…

The article “Cops Who Covered Up Laquan McDonald’s Death Back on Chicago Payroll,” by Michael Harriot, connects to the theme of Justice in Ghettoside because in the article, the police officers who tried to cover up Laquan McDonald’s death were not punished for anything they did and were even put back on the city’s payroll. Which shows that law enforcement isn’t concerned with trying to stop the violence in their cities. This is similar to Ghettoside because at one point in the book it is said…

barbaric displays of human aggression. There is other place in America that represents this more than the city of Chicago, Illinois: also known as the “murder…

identify potential criminal activity according to Wikipedia. This software helps law enforcement agencies reduce crime, by using algorithms to predict where crimes will happen. The software used automatically looks for historical patterns of crime in areas, working like the forecast called machine learning. This software is quick and simple, allowing it to access data from each Departments Records Management System by using a GPS tracking system to tell the approximate location and time. The…

gangs were taken off the street violent crimes would be lowered by half. Out of the 486 murders in Chicago there would be 243 more people alive. In Chicago alone there are over 600 gangs. These gangs each have illegal, undocumented guns that are used in these acts of unspeakable…

people the “community is made up of” (2011:90). Mr. Linder described people who are “not rich or fancy”, which are both things the Younger family aren’t. The Younger family lived in a home where a mother and daughter had to sleep in one room and a boy had to sleep in the living room, their home was also filled with furniture that was described as looking “tired” and “had to accommodate the living of too many people for too many years” (2011:50). Mr. Linder described the people of the community…

disorganization has been described as the disruption and breakdown of social structures, which then results in the loss of social control in certain areas of the community; the overall goal of the social disorganization theory is to link crime rates directly to neighborhoods ecological characteristics (Bond, 2015). As it had been established at the University of Chicago during the 1920s during a time of social unrest, it became well-established during this time and has remained a prominent…

returned to Chicago in the summer for an internship at Sidley and Austin law firm where he met his wife Michelle Patterson, a Chicago native and Princeton and Harvard graduate. Michelle was his supervisor at the firm and after a four-year of dating, they married in 1992. Obama implemented Illinois project vote, a voter registration drive aimed to increase black turnout in the 1992 election. He then took a position as an attorney at civil rights firm and a professor at the University of Chicago…