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Thomas Andrews, right, smokes weed in his front porch, while his younger sister plays with her daughter. Andrews lives with four other of his siblings and five of his nieces and nephews in a small three bedroom house, in a neighborhood called Sun…

Socorro Santiago sits next to the grave site of her son, Robert Santiago, who was murdered one year ago at the age of 24 in Chester due to his connections to the drug world. In this city, where the murder rate in 2006 was almost seven times the…

Pastor Mike Evans, center, and Paster George Anderson, left of center, gather in prayer, with a group of prayer walkers from Evan's Congregation. Every fourth Saturday, the Congregation walks the entire 11 miles around the city of Chester, blessing…

Jasmine Bacon, 4, stands in the doorway of her uncle's house waiting for her mother to return from the corner store. The Bacon household is extremely full and because there are 12 people living in a small three bedroom home, a number of them has to…

Jeffery Washington, 12, fights with his sister, Lavender Washington, 10, in her bedroom, where they live with thier mother and 10 other of thier siblings in Chester Pa. Violence in Chester is common and often young children internalize it and then…

Tarimur Harris, 60, lies sleeping in his room in his brothers house in Chester, Pa. Harris was diagnosed with intestinal cancer 4 years ago and has been fighting it every since. He rarely ever leaves his room because his energy level is low and…

Chester is laden all along its western side with over a half a dozen highly polluting faculties that line the Delaware river.

The corner of Front St. and Thurlow St. in Chester, PA, is where kids from the block often play on and around the train tracks. Story Summary: Decades ago Chester was once a predominately white community with a thriving economy built around ship…

New York, New York March 14, 2008 Outside the New York Stock Exchange on the day Bear Stearns investors bailed out en masse and stock shares fell sharply. On Sunday March 16 Federal Reserve would bail out Bear Stearns with a $30 billion…

Cleveland, Ohio March 28, 2008 Once rumored to be the largest mall in the United States the Randell Park Mall is all but closed due to violence, bad maintanance, poor business, a the current mortgage crisis. The vast cavernous atriums remain dark…