Crime Lab The Chicago Block Where 15 People Were Shot in the Last Year Alone
NBC News / December 12, 2016
By Safia Samee Ali
CHICAGO — Janis Bailey says the sound of gunshots outside her apartment window might as well replace her alarm clock most mornings.
When she hears the pop, pop, pop of the guns she knows it's time to get out of bed for an early morning shift working for the Transportation Security Administration at Midway airport.
By 2 a.m., Bailey is outside standing alone at the bus stop in the predawn dark. She says she prays silently as bullets barely miss her as she waits.
She says she's not scared, "God has protected me" she adds. But she does worry for her 12-year-old daughter who will wake up in a few hours to walk to school, even though she is with her father.
12 December 2016
