Successful anti-gun program expanding here

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Successful anti-gun program expanding here

June 8, 2005

BY FRAN SPIELMAN City Hall Reporter

A federal anti-gun program that's at least partly responsible for Chicago's falling homicide rate will be expanded to a fifth police district -- Marquette, which covers the Pilsen, Little Village and Lawndale communities -- under a plan unveiled Tuesday by Mayor Daley and U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.

The expansion of Project Safe Neighborhoods will be further enhanced with a new advertising campaign that uses 130 billboards and more than 90 public transit posters to warn convicted felons of "Federal Time for Gun Crime."

Fitzgerald's relentless pursuit of corruption tied to the city's Hired Truck and minority business programs has made Daley's life miserable in recent months. But the two men were downright chummy at Tuesday's news conference at Maria Saucedo Scholastic Academy, 2850 W. 24th Blvd.

Daley, who spent years complaining that the federal government was inattentive to gun crimes and gun trafficking, was effusive in his praise of Safe Neighborhoods under Fitzgerald's direction.


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