More than two decades ago, as a rookie Chicago police officer assigned to the South Side, Jennifer Maddox found herself regularly called to the Parkway Gardens housing complex in Woodlawn, mostly responding to kids getting into trouble.
“I was inside there literally every day,” she said. “We saw there were no safe places, or any places, to play. They were getting in trouble because of that. They were finding their own fun.”
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