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

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Original Load Date Nov. 20, 2025, 6:02 a.m.
Last Updated Nov. 20, 2025, 6:02 a.m.
Original URL https://www.wbez.org/health-medicine/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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Daevon Reynolds grew up in Austin on Chicago’s West Side, where burning off energy at the neighborhood park around people selling **** drugs wasn’t safe. His mom would take her two boys to the vast Columbus Park nearby to play. Reynolds and his brother would fight with sticks and make up stories ab...