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The Chicago Project for Violence Prevention with the School of Public Health at UIC works with community, city, county, state, and federal partners to reduce violence in Chicago and in other communities in Illinois and throughout the nation. In its first 11 years of work, the Chicago Project has built the infrastructure for community-level participation, community-government partnership, and for the development of new roles for all partners, emphasizing community capacity building, community organization roles, clergy roles, and police roles. The project has also designed and tested a new intervention — CeaseFire — that focuses on outreach and the changing of community norms to reduce violence, particularly shootings.