Beware the Bantam Fighter

Word spreads through Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood that Josephina Burgos is on the move, strutting down the street with her children in tow. “She is a mother hen, a bantam fighter walking into a pitter’s entrance ready to put on a show.” Even the Spanish Cobras move aside as she pushes the stroller through their territory. The crowd—now her flock—circles around as she approaches the boys who hurt her son. “There is no escaping her spur. Her words are claws, filled with fury and truth...