We read this and wish to say that thankfully our parents moved from 7628 S Paulina in 1970. We vividly remember the “hood’ as being segregated by South Ashland Ave even back then.

When MLK was shot in April 1968 the whole neighborhood went to hell and really never recovered. It is telling that here we are 54 years later as the city is about to reincarnate another Democratic National Convention in a scant few weeks and the 7th police district...