Not a 'dog' story...It's about a boy
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A view of Chicago's downtown from the city's West Side where Fountain grew up and for which he named the publishing company he founded: WestSide Press. |
Part of this week’s column appeared in a column by the author in the Chicago Sun-Times in March 2011.
By
John W. Fountain
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quickly made telephone calls and found community leaders and others who
questioned how something like this could happen, not in a Third World country,
but in a sturdy metropolis, in one of the world's richest countries. That some
reportedly heard a child’s screams the night before but never went to
investigate made the story even more troubling.
It
was clear from my preliminary reporting that there was a story here, about a
man-child said to sometimes wear shoes several sizes too big, a boy beloved by
his teachers and classmates who had fallen through the cracks. A story about how
his death galvanized a community.
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