On the west side of Chicago, just five miles from the gleaming Loop, the Little Village Lawndale High School is the pride of this working-class community. It's an impressive, $63-million campus, where 1,400 students hit the books beneath mosaics, glass curtain walls and a Mayan solar calendar. There's a two-story atrium, two gyms, a child-care center, a health clinic, and long-distance learning labs. But even with the new school, young people have trouble finding safe places to hang out in Little Village, where 95,000 people live among factories and trucking depots. In addition to the omnipresent gangs, a coal-fired power plant looms over the community. Container trucks crowd the street, trundling freight bound for the suburbs.
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机译：在芝加哥西侧，距离闪闪发光的环路仅5英里（1.6公里），Little Village Lawndale高中是这个工人阶级社区的骄傲。这是一个令人印象深刻的校园，耗资6300万美元，那里有1400名学生在镶嵌，玻璃幕墙和玛雅太阳历下的书上写字。有一个两层楼的中庭，两个体育馆，一个儿童保育中心，一个健康诊所和远程学习实验室。但是即使有了这所新学校，年轻人仍然难以在小村庄找到安全的地方闲逛，那里有95,000人居住在工厂和卡车仓库之间。除了无所不在的帮派，一个燃煤发电厂笼罩着整个社区。集装箱卡车在街道上拥挤，使运往郊区的货物陷入困境。
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