Welcome to the Reader‘s morning briefing for Monday, June 27, 2016.
Shooting of three-year-old leads to a truce between Woodlawn gangs
When three-year-old Devon Quinn was shot in Woodlawn on Father’s Day, Corey Brooks took action. Brooks, the pastor at New Beginnings Church, decided to broker a truce between gangs in order to stop the violence. “We had everyone sit across from one another and tried to work everything out,” he said. [DNAinfo Chicago]