The course of David “Boogie” Gonzalez’s life changed when, in 1971, he lost his older brother Jacob, a year home from Vietnam, to Pilsen’s gang violence. “I guess that was his wake up call,” rememb…
Annabelle Gonzalez-Falcon, center, a sister of David Gonzalez, smiles during a honorary street sign unveiling ceremony for her brother, David “Boogie” Gonzalez, a peace advocate, on Saturday, June 22, 2024, in Pilsen in Chicago. Gonzalez was murdered 51 years ago while he was meditating. The course of David “Boogie” Gonzalez’s life changed when, in 1971, he lost his older brother Jacob, a year home from Vietnam, to Pilsen’s gang violence.
As an outreach worker with a Pilsen community center, he brokered hard-won truces between the neighborhood’s rival gangs, then called “clubs” — work now commonly known as violence interruption and funded with city support, here and elsewhere. Organized by the Gonzalez Foundation, a nonprofit started by his nieces, the march mirrored the one that took place immediately after his death, when dozens of people took to 18th Street in a rally for peace.
Around 30 people marched along 18th Street from Harrison Park to Throop Park at 18th and South Throop streets. They held signs that read “Boogie Lives!” and chanted, “For Boogie,” as they walked.
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