Lance Williams

Northeastern Illinois University

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Lance Williams is an associate professor of educational inquiry and curriculum studies at Northeastern Illinois University and assistant director of its Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies.

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The name "Trump" takes up two stories atop a Chicago skyscraper, but the President has singled out the city for concentrated "carnage."

President Trump and the 'Chicago problem'

The name "Trump" takes up two stories atop a Chicago skyscraper, but the President has singled out the city for concentrated "carnage."

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