As the weather breaks outside, one of the unfortunate side effects in the City of Chicago is the violence that breaks out in the streets. This nike air max year has been no different, as a number of people have been killed since late April when things began to warm up in the city.
On Saturday, some of the areas best high school basketball players from the South and West sides of town competed in the Chicago United Hoops Classic at the Gerald E. Ratner Center on the University of Chicago campus, air max uk in an event aimed at bringing awareness and hopefully an end to all of the senseless acts of street violence that occur all too often.
"Growing up in Chicago, it was always the South side versus the West side – which was a good rivalry – but as we started to see all of the crime in our community, we wanted to bring a basketball game to the table with the purpose air max 90 of silencing the violence on these streets,” said Jobba Maxey, one of creators of the Chicago United Hoops Classic which is now in its third year.