Summary

This chapter opens with a meeting being held with the Chicago Housing Authority's new chairman, Vincent Lane. He seems to be of some hope to the residents, because he is outraged when he discovers that the mess in the basements at Horner was deliberately kept secret from him so that people who had worked for the CHA for years would not lose their jobs. He thinks that nobody ever thinks of the residents. He has come to the job with few illusions. The misery of the inner city projects has been exposed since 1965 when......

Notes

Vincent Lane is obviously an idealist, but he is also determined. That can mean some good will come to Horner. In the......

CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT

Summary

As this chapter opens, Lafeyette is packing up his meager belongings in a cardboard box. Four weeks earlier, he had been arrested with four other boys for allegedly breaking into a Toyota. Lafeyette insisted he hadn't done it, but had been walking by when it happened and was swept up in the arrest. Today is their first day in court. LaJoe tries not to show it, but she is as worried as Lafeyette. She doesn't think she can last through another child going to jail. Since this experience, in spite of the fact that he hangs out with a fast........

Notes

Lafeyette's experience with the court system is a perfect example of incompetence and lack of compassion. They don't.......

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