Latonya Polk talks with her daughter Briana Nicholson about prom at their home in the Chicago suburb of Wood Dale on Friday, May 1, 2015. Nicholson has only a week and a half left of high school.
Polk and her two children moved out of Bellwood, one of Chicago's most violent suburbs, after the 2011 murder of her husband Kalem Polk.
Photo by Alyssa Schukar