The Deadliest U.S. City for School Children: Chicago
(Four teens have been charged with first-degree murder in the brutal beating death of a Chicago high school student that was caught on videotape. NBC's Robert Stafford reports.)
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Durbin Wants AG Holder, Arne Duncan To Help Curb Chicago Violence (circa: June 2009)
Illinois Senator Dick Durbin has asked Attorney General Eric Holder to help lower the youth crime rate in Chicago.
Durbin visited with Holder on Wednesday to talk about the Obama Administration's efforts to reduce the increasing Chicago violence.
The two also discussed efforts by the Department of Justice and Chicago Mayor Richard Daley to keep Chicago school children safe. Durbin says more than 500 Chicago school children were shot last school year, and at least 36 of them died.
Durbin has also asked Secretary of Education Arne Duncan to help with strategies, noting Duncan's experience with Chicago schools.
Pres. Obama Sending Cabinet Members To Chicago Over Derrion Albert's Fatal Beating
President Barack Obama is sending Attorney General Eric Holder and Education Secretary Arne Duncan to Chicago next week to discuss the recent beating death of a 16-year-old honors student.
White House press secretary Robert Gibbs says Holder and Duncan will meet Wednesday with school officials, students and residents and talk about school violence.
Earlier this week, Gibbs described as "chilling" a cell phone video showing the fatal beating of Derrion Albert.
Chicago prosecutors have charged four teenagers in the beating of the sophomore honor roll student. Officials say Albert was walking to a bus stop when he got caught up in street fighting.
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