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A demonstrator carrying a cross heads to an anti-violence protest on the Dan Ryan Expressway in Chicago, July 7, 2018. - Thousands of protesters against Chicago's pervasive gun violence partially shut down a major expressway in the third-largest US city, which leads the country in murders. The demonstrators, led by a local pastor known for decades of anti-violence advocacy in Chicago's hard-scrabble South Side, completely closed off one side of the Dan Ryan Expressway for about an hour. (Photo by JIM YOUNG / AFP) (Photo by JIM YOUNG/AFP via Getty Images)