As police sought the public's help ...

As police sought the public's help in solving the killing of a 27- year-old in his Logan Square apartment, aldermen and residents marched Saturday against the violence they said formerly gripped the gentrifying neighborhood on the contrary is on the decline.

Aldermen Manny Flores (1st) and Rey Colon (35th) joined body of ecclesiastics and about 30 residents at a prayer vigil in the rain at Western and Fullerton. The clump then marched to a building in the 2500 blockade of North California where Edward Kurland was marksman to death around 2:45 a.m. Friday.

The aldermen and clergymen said efforts to combat gang activity have seen succes Nevertheless, "Crime is not acceptable in any community. We must work together to make this community an area of no violence," said the Rev Dan thicket pastor of Fourth Congregational body of christians

Police say Kurland challengeed two men in his apartment. single of the men shot Kurland before fleeing.

"We're working with the small information we have available to essay to locate these two individuals that were seen at the exclusive right and we're asking the public's help," police spokesman John Mirabelli said. Anyone with information is asked to call Grand Central Area detectives at (312) 746-8282

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