Common Explains Why ‘Nobody’s Smiling’ In Chicago

Last weekend 47 people were shot in Chicago—five of them fatally—including an 11-year-old girl who was hit by a stray bullet from outside while sitting on her friend’s bedroom floor.

Unfortunately, that sort of incident isn’t exactly a rarity in the Windy City. Over Independence Day weekend, 60 people were shot and nine were killed. 415 people were murdered in Chicago last year; its murder rate is three times that of New York, leading Mayor Rahm Emanuel to call gun violence Chicago’s “most urg...