I never worry Ill be shot in Chicago. After all, Im white.
For the past 18 years, Ive walked regularly down Howard Street, on the far northern fringe of Chicago. Its a colorful marketplace of dollar stores, chicken shacks, West Indian restaurants, Arab-owned groceries and hip-hop sneaker shops. Its also the turf of Loyalty Over Cash, a Gangster Disciples faction that has been embroiled in a feud