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House accompanied his gang leader, Artez “Ted” Thigpen, and others on Sept. 13, 1993, to kidnap 15- and 18-year-old men selling drugs at a Chicago street corner after a factional split of the Unknown Vice Lords. Unlike the younger Miller, House armed himself and helped force the interlopers into Thigpen’s car, Kashyap said.

“I wouldn’t really think he was a crusader, per se, but I asked him about that and he said, ‘No, I just felt that was the right thing to do.’ That just seemed the most logical, correct thing to do. It got him a lot of trouble in the industry, but he didn’t care,” Baird said. “My father never really looked at the industry as a resource because, quite frankly, I just don’t think they’re at the head of the pack on this issue.”

Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto, from left, then-U.S. President Donald Trump and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, sign a new free trade agreement Nov. 30, 2018, in Buenos Aires on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit. The U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement replaced the North American Free Trade Agreement. (SAUL LOEB / AFP/Getty Images)

Gilbert Allen, left, and his brother Michael Allen are seen in Chicago on May 7, 2021. The two wrote “Brotherly Love,” a book that recounts that painful but transformational period of Gilbert and Michael’s life. The book is aimed at 5th through 8th graders, which is a population that Michael nurtures and cultivates every day as a principal at Oakton Elementary in Evanston. (Terrence Antonio James / Chicago Tribune)