Perhaps the cruelest thing about the streets on the South Side of Chicago is its senselessness. What sense is there to be found in the just-released Chicago Sun-Times report that 57 school-age children lost their lives to gun violence in 2021? What meaning can be found in this terrifying nihilism? Pastor Corey Brooks found himself facing this question when he woke up on the 31st day of his 100-day rooftop vigil to raise funds for a community center designed to counter this senseless violence.
