More summer jobs for Chicago youth is a smart move, if city can find the money

Millennium Park security officials wave a baton around a woman at a security checkpoint on April 21. Less than a week before, two teens were shot and at least 15 people were arrested during violence downtown. (Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere/Sun-Times)

By this point in the year, when fall-like temperatures linger a month into spring, most Chicagoans are ready for the weather to warm up.

Yet even those who yearn for summer still brace themselves, anticipating the uptick in violence that usually accompanies the heat.