Ronald Cashaw looks out from the window of his clothing store, Just Kicking, in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood of Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. Blocked by security bars, looters smashed the front window of his store grabbed some clothing and ran away before Cashaw arrived. "I had tears in my eyes," says Cashaw. The looting was something new, and horrible. But in the nearly two decades Cashaw has served this community, financial problems have grown more devastating. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

The sun sets as residents from neighboring blocks attend a 'peace picnic' in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. In a chaotic year destined for the history books, Auburn Gresham, a Black community in Chicago, has written its own grim chapter. It has endured a deadly virus, protests, gun violence and economic misery. The constant state of turmoil mirrors the tumult that has afflicted much of urban America. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Zarano "Zeke" Watson, 64, picks up trash and mows lawns for extra cash or sometimes volunteers his time in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. Of the neighborhood, he said, "You should've seen this place in the '90s." He said, though the neighborhood has fallen on hard times again, it was worse then, more shootings and crack houses. That said, he's frustrated with the younger generation and fears they will repeat those mistakes. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Demetrius Mingo, right, an outreach worker with the Target Area Development Corporation, a nonprofit that addresses stubborn local problems, embraces an old friend as neighboring blocks attend a 'peace picnic' in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. The group supplied its outreach workers face masks to distribute while making their rounds to prevent gang retaliation. It hasn't been easy making the argument to young men who pay little attention to the virus and already have a fatalistic view of life, says Autry Phillips, the group's executive director. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A drive-thru teller sits vacant at a Bank of America branch that closed its doors in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. The community has a long history of trouble attracting and maintaining businesses. Auburn Gresham suffers from decades of disinvestment and residents now have to travel outside the community for health care or groceries. That creates enormous hardship for the elderly. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Snovia Gosa signs a message on a memorial board for a friend who was killed by gun violence as residents from neighboring blocks attend a 'peace picnic' in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. Last year, 1,149 guns were recovered from the 6th police district, which includes Auburn Gresham, about 10 percent of the haul for the entire city. As of the end of September, the district had recorded 59 homicides this year, nearly 60 percent higher than the same period last year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A pedestrian walks by a long standing memorial to victims of gun violence outside St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Last year, 1,149 guns were recovered from the 6th police district, which includes Auburn Gresham, about 10 percent of the haul for the entire city. As of the end of September, the district had recorded 59 homicides this year, nearly 60 percent higher than the same period last year. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Children play in the spray of an open fire hydrant on a hot summer day in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Wednesday, Aug. 26, 2020. As summer arrived, shootings surged in the 6th police district, which includes Auburn Gresham. Over three months, there were a shocking 175 victims. The youngest, 10 and 11, were wounded in a drive-by attack. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Ethel Watts, 80, makes the half-mile walk home with fresh groceries from a food distribution site at St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Auburn Gresham has faced hard times before. Guns are easy to find. Fresh produce isn't. Poverty hovers around 20 percent. But there's never been anything like this: A once-in-a-century epidemic in a community without a hospital. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Teyonna Lofton, 18, shows the scars while sitting outside her home in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Monday, Aug. 24, 2020, from surgeries to graft a vein from her leg to increase blood flow in her arm where she was shot. Lofton, a beaming high school graduate, had just been honored by friends and family with a car parade. As she waited at a gas station to buy a soft drink, shots rang out, and she fell hard. She prayed she would not die. In a chaotic year destined for the history books, Auburn Gresham, a Black community in Chicago, has written its own grim chapter, enduring a deadly virus, economic misery and gun violence, a constant state of turmoil that mirrors the tumult afflicting much of urban America. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Jenny Edwards, right, holds her eight-month-old grandson, Daniel, during a church service at St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. In harrowing moments, in the sobs of grieving mourners and the incessant wail of sirens, the crises of 2020 have played out painfully within this single Chicago community. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Tequila Butler, left, sets up her taco stand out of the back of a U-Haul truck with her daughters, Alliyah, 15, rear, and Chardonnay, 14, in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. Butler suspects she was infected with the virus this spring after she was transferred from her job in a hospital kitchen to one cleaning COVID-19 patients' rooms. After she was furloughed, she decided not to go back. So the culinary school graduate converted a rented U-Haul into a truck that sells $1 tacos, the low price to accommodate customers with little money.(AP Photo/David Goldman)

A motivational message is written on a timetable at a Metra train line station in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. As this agonizing year nears an end, some in Auburn Gresham are looking ahead, with hope. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Phlebotomist Sarah Steffeter, right, tests Phillip McTerron, at a COVID-19 testing site in the parking lot of a shuttered store damaged by recent looting in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. Auburn Gresham was hit early by the pandemic. COVID-19 infections rose quickly. Stores closed during a citywide lockdown. Then the agonizingly public death of George Floyd spurred protests that turned ugly. Businesses were set ablaze. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Demetrius Mingo, right, an outreach worker with the Target Area Development Corporation, a nonprofit that addresses stubborn local problems, talks with residents while making rounds looking to mediate conflicts in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Saturday, Aug. 22, 2020. The group has also walked the streets to warn one segment of the population, victims and perpetrators of gun violence, of the dangers of a virus they could unwittingly pass on to their families. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

The Rev. Michael Pfleger, second from right, leads a prayer before delivering Mass at St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Sunday, Aug. 23, 2020. "Forty-five years I've been here and never has it been as bad as it is right now in terms of hopelessness, anger and despair. Never," says Pfleger, one of the city's most vocal social activists. One day in July, a gang dispute erupted in a shootout in front of a local funeral home, wounding 15 and leaving 60 bullet casings strewn about the sidewalk. Pfleger walked over to the scene, then went home and cried. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Police Commander Rahman Muhammad stands outside a funeral home where a shootout wounded 15, in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Muhammad says there's been a big shift since he began work in the 6th district 25 years ago when gun violence revolved around narcotics or some other criminal enterprise. Now, he says, social media is often the driving force behind the shootings. Disputes often start out online as gang members who've grown up together are now rivals taunting each other over petty matters that escalate into tragedy. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Patrolman George Newell, left, checks on fellow police officers while patrolling through the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. In a chaotic year destined for the history books, Auburn Gresham has written its own grim chapter. This Black community on the city's South Side has endured a deadly virus, gun violence and economic misery, a constant state of turmoil that mirrors the tumult afflicting much of urban America. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

A woman and child cross a street as Police Commander Rahman Muhammad patrols though the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Tuesday, Aug. 25, 2020. Muhammad says solving crimes has become tougher because of "an erosion of trust between the police and the community." Residents fear their own safety, and so are less inclined to cooperate. Attitudes have changed, too. Years ago, "we would be able to go to a leader of a gang and have a conversation ... and have some type of mutual respect or rapport," Muhammad says. "That's different now." (AP Photo/David Goldman)

The downtown skyline stands in the distance at left as a Metra train line station sits empty during rush hour in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. In Chicago, one of the nation's most segregated cities, nearly 43 percent of the virus' victims have been Black, more than twice the number of whites. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

Residents line up at a food distribution site at St. Sabina Catholic Church in the Auburn Gresham neighborhood in Chicago, Thursday, Aug. 27, 2020. In the neighborhood, many of those working survive paycheck-to-paycheck, and they've suffered, too, amid furloughs and job cuts. Food pantries have popped up and long lines of the newly unemployed wait for food donations. (AP Photo/David Goldman)