The Rev. Al Sharpton shared more details about his plan first announced in June to spend some time in Chicago in an effort to shine the spotlight on local leaders and neighborhoods groups working to reduce violence in the city. Sharpton said Sunday that he will live part time in a Chicago apartment rented from the Rev. Marshall Hatch of New Mount Pilgrim Missionary Baptist a day or two a week.

"There are people in the trenches every day the nation needs to know about," Sharpton said at a news conference in the city's West Side Austin neighborhood.

Sharpton, who founded the National Action Network, said he would analyze the Chicago Police Department's efforts to address street violence and look at the tactics community organizations and other activists are using in the neighborhoods, putting a spotlight on those that could work in other parts of the country.