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Unforgiving Places winter Kyiv Independent reporter Illia PonomarenkoWhat if everything we understood about gun violence was wrong? In 2007, economist Jens Ludwig moved to the South Side of Chicago to research two big questions: Why does gun violence happen, and is there anything we can do about it? Almost two decades later, the answers arent what he expected. Unforgiving Places is Ludwigs revelatory portrait of gun violence in Americas most famously maligned city. Disproving the popular narrative that shootings are