Citizens Opt to Fight for War Streets

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For the first time since moving to the Mexican War Streets two years ago, Bill Buettin and his wife discussed the possibility of moving out of the North Side neighborhood.

That talk came Wednesday night, hours after two teens in dark, hooded sweatshirts shot a letter carrier in the hand during a botched robbery attempt -- in broad daylight, right outside the Buettin's front door.

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Citizens Opt to Fight for War Streets

Buettin's 7-month-old son, Will, was at home with a nanny at the time of the shooting. The thought that only 50 feet and a wall separated his child from the gunfire frightened and angered Buettin, a North Shore banker, who like others in the neighborhood said he moved to the War Streets because it seemed like an idyllic urban neighborhood undergoing a rebirth.

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