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Rick Telander: A Season Under The Gun

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Coach Lou Adams talks to his players during a timeout against North Lawndale College Prep High School at Orr Academy High School, Jan. 13, 2017. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

How long would you last? As a teen, maybe early 20s, a young man of color, here on the West Side? aseasonunderthegunlogo

That is, stay out of jail. Avoid violence. Learn. Have a future. Remain alive.

Who knows? Who knows at all?

I ask myself those questions often as I visit Orr High School, which sits like a low, beige box on the southwest corner of Chicago Avenue and Pulaski Road.

Read Rick Telander’s special report…

Day 1, At Orr, basketball — and the bleeding of a U.S. city

Day, 2, Orr sits in the center of the storm

Day 3, Orr’s first game — gunfire, then tipoff

Day 4, A hope basketball leads to better things

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