Author and Chicago Sun-Times columnist John Fountain has been writing about violence in Chicago since he was a cub reporter at the Chicago Tribune in 1989—though he’d been living the beat long before that. Fountain grew up on Chicago’s West Side, in K-Town. There, he was exposed to poverty and its symptoms: drugs, broken homes, gang violence and crime. But he knew he wanted to make a difference. Part of that, he says, was his Pentecostal upbringing; Fountain’s grandfather was the pastor of the True Vine church. Fountain went on to become a deacon in the church and maintains that faith holds the answer to so many problems.
Fountain spoke with Father Chuck Dahm, of Pilsen and Pastor Phil Jackson, of Lawndale about getting kids “off the corners and back to church” as part of the Long Hot Summer series on Steve Edwards’ Afternoon Shift.
Source: wbez.org
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