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Two men face first-degree murder charges in the killing of 67-year-old Jerry Lewis earlier this week outside his Near West Side office.
Lewis was a fixture in the area who for years worked to improve the surrounding communities, his son told the Tribune earlier this week.
“(He was) really trying to change the neighborhood,” son Zach Lewis said the day after his father was shot and killed. “You wouldn’t expect his own neighborhood to turn on him.”
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