As they live Chicago’s ‘Death Gap,’ a three-generation West Side family fights to end it

Source Chicago Sun-Times
Original Load Date Nov. 20, 2025, 6:01 a.m.
Last Updated Nov. 20, 2025, 6:01 a.m.
Original URL https://chicago.suntimes.com/health/2025/11/20/death-gap-racial-life-expectancy-gap-west-garfield-park-heart-disease-cancer-homicide-opioid-overdose-chicago-west-side-loop

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* SHARE * COPY LINK Share CLOSE * [ Twitter ][23] * [ Facebook ][24] * [ Bluesky ][25] * [ Email ][26] * [ Reddit ][27] * [ Flipboard ][28] Daevon Reynolds grew up in Austin on Chicago’s West Side, where burning off energy at the neighborhood park around people selling ****...