CARBONDALE — More than five years ago, Nancy Maxwell established Carbondale United with a mission to stem the root causes of gun violence in the city.

“One of the reasons why I took my children out of Chicago to bring them here was because the violence was absent. It wasn’t like it is in the city,” Maxwell said. “To see it starting to pick up, I felt like this is an opportunity for us to interrupt and try to get the violence down.”

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