Pilsen teens promote peace through hip hop festival

More Stop the Violence

• Benefit debuts anti-violence theme song
• July 21, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Some Chicago children use music and dance to express their plea to stop the violence.
• Buddha statues project aims to stop violence
• July 12, 2013 (CHICAGO) - A local artist has been changing the landscape in several Chicago neighborhoods by adding art in unlikely places -- and hopefully sparking conversations. It's part of a movement that hopes to evoke peace and offer a solution to help stop the violence.
• CAPS using Twitter, smartphones to curb violence
• July 8, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Chicago police announced new steps aimed at reducing the violence Monday, including an effort to modernize CAPS, the Chicago Alternative Policing Strategy.
• Al Sharpton in Chicago for West Side summer program launch
• June 30, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Civil rights activist Rev. Al Sharpton was in Chicago Sunday to help kick off a summer program to keep kids safe.
• March calls to stop the violence
• July 6, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Governor Pat Quinn and Pastor Corey Brooks call for an end to violence marching through a South Side neighborhood.
• CPD takes 2,500 guns off Chicago streets
• May 13, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Chicago police say they have now seized more than 2,500 illegal guns so far this year.
• Mothers who lost kids to gun violence attend event
• May 12, 2013 (CHICAGO) - For mothers who have lost a child to gun violence, Mother's Day is a difficult time.
• Going door-to-door to stop the violence
• May 4, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Several community leaders gathered with volunteers to go door-to-door in a new effort to stop the violence, with the aim of starting 10,000 conversations about the problems plaguing Chicago communities.
• Sound judgment key to stopping violence
• April 26, 2013 (CHICAGO) - Getting kids to enjoy reading is one thing -- but helping them develop critical thinking skills could be life-saving.
• YMCA programs help keep kids off streets
• April 12, 2013 (CHICAGO) - In order to meet the needs of various communities, the YMCA is offering more programs to keep kids off the streets.
• Michelle Obama: 'Hadiya Pendleton was me'
• April 10, 2013 (CHICAGO) - ''Hadiya's family was just like my family. Hadiya Pendleton was me. And I was her,'' Michelle Obama said. ''But I got to grow up.''
• Social media used to help stop the violence
• March 31, 2013 (CHICAGO) - New numbers from Chicago Police show a big decline in murders this month compared to last year, but that does not erase last year's 500 homicides and a young man is using social media to form a movement against violence.

• Computers help curb violence in Englewood
• Play 'Broken Windows' looks at choices, decisions
• CPD hosts town hall to stop the violence
• Windy City Hoops keeping kids off streets
• Training program for ex-offenders looking for jobs
• Play highlights real life Chicago gun violence
• Hadiya Pendleton honored at Kennicott Park rally
• Chicago group aims to Stop Violence, keep peace
• Stopping the violence in high crime neighborhoods
• Spring break trip combats Chicago violence
• Windy City LIVE: Stop the Violence
• Anti-violence march on Southwest Side
• Training ex-offenders gives them second chance, opportunity
• Video: 'I hurt all the time,' Hadiya Pendleton's mother
• 'Broken' sentencing part of Chicago violence cycle, McCarthy says
• ABC7 Exclusive: Mayor Emanuel on anti-violence plan
• Windy City Hoops basketball program expanding
• Obama wraps State of Union speech tour in Chicago
• Teen killed same day sister sat behind Obama
• Mom: Victims of gun violence need voice
• 2 men arrested, held in Hadiya Pendleton's murder
• Obama's visit to address gun violence, other issues
• Shooting victim's parents to other parents: Step up
• Aurora provides example for stopping violence
• Boxing initiative hopes to get Chicago kids inside police gyms
• Chicago teens plead for peace
• Obama urged to address Chicago violence
• March, vigil held to remember Hadiya Pendleton
• Families of victims look to stop the violence
• Photo shoot aims to Stop the Violence