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Residents Of O’Block Have United To Practice Islamic Religion
Residents Of O’Block Have United To Practice Islam
The most dangerous block in Chicago isn’t in Englewood or on the West Side. It’s a stretch of South King Drive where a young Michelle Obama once lived. They call it “O Block.”
On maps, it’s the 6400 block of South Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. But it’s just O Block to people there and in frequent references to the street in the blood-drenched lyrics of Chief Keef and other Chicago rappers.
According to new reports reaching us at Dreddsworld, residents of O’Block are looking to clean the tarnished image of their community. We gathered that they’re now uniting together to practice Islam.
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Gang members gave O Block the name. The O was for 20-year-old Odee Perry, a gang member gunned down just around the corner on a summer’s night in 2011. His killer? A 17-year-old female gang assassin named Gakirah Barnes, police sources say. Barnes later was shot to death not far from here.
Perry was one of 19 people shot on O Block between June 2011 and June 2014. That makes it the most dangerous block in Chicago in terms of shootings in that three-year period, a Chicago Sun-Times analysis has found.
Back in 1905, before Parkway Gardens was built, the area used to be a racist amusement park named “White City” which did not allow black people in. White City was actually one of the most successful parks in Chicago at the time, but later on, White City would start having multiple fires such as the one in September 1911 causing serious damage.
Again again in early July 1925, but the one in June 1927 would cause $200,000 in damage, where the park had to close down in 1933 due to the company being unable to pay the taxes, and also due to the Great Depression.
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