Dogfighting in Chicago: ‘An absence of shame’

Wednesday, November 19, 2008 0:43
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By Rex W. Huppke |Tribune reporter
2:05 PM CST, November 18, 2008

The Englewood basement was cramped, chaotic. Fifty people — parents, kids, a pregnant woman — huddled around a bloody 10-foot-by-10-foot ring, cheering two pit bulls trained to kill.
Barbaric to most, this medieval blood sport remains a routine source of shameless entertainment in large swaths of the city.
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