Solutions for gun violence, support for Palestine top Chicago students’ priorities at early voting event

As Kalli Vaughn prepared to vote in the city’s primary election Friday morning, she said she was voting because she wants answers to the violence she sees in her community – particularly gun violence that targets young people. “The big issue for me is the killings, especially of children,” said Kalli, a 17-year-old student at Richard Crane Medical Preparatory High School on the Near West Side, who will turn 18 in May before the general election. “You go on Instagram and see the videos of children being murdered and that’s...