In 2005, Richard C. Gleason II was a newly sworn-in Cook County assistant state’s attorney. Afraid he would become jaded if his only interaction with Chicago’s communities came in court, he sought a different way to get involved.“My thought at the time was that I wanted to know these neighborhoods not just through crimes committed by their worst actors, but also through the good works of their best actors — the children in these neighborhoods who were going to school and doing the right thing day in …