Chicago
A collection of 25 posts
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“Solving Chicago’s murders could prevent more”
Source » Alex Kotlowitz in the New Yorker: But one issue is rarely raised: year after year, the vast majority of murders and non-fatal shootings in Chicago go unsolved. Last year, the police charged individuals in just twenty-six per cent of
The corrupt “keep sprouting, like eyes on a potato in your pantry, or a bloodthirsty many-headed hydra if you’re into mythology”
Source » John Kass in the Tribune: Yet even reformers go away, like Lawrence Bloom, Hyde Park’s former alderman, the face of good government who got caught up in a federal sting. So in corrupt Chicago — did I mention it’
“I feel like the whole season is a home game”
Source » –Dexter Fowler More in the Tribune’s “This was the year” video Update: Here’s a fan celebration supercut: (h/t @carlkuhl) Another update: Hamilton cast sings “Go Cubs Go!:” (h/t @linzegee)
How a pastor and a seamstress gave us Labor Day
Source » Vikki Ortiz Healy for the Tribune: When two Pullman residents, the Rev. William Cowardine and Jennie Curtis, a seamstress, brought the unfair work conditions to the attention of the American Railway Union in 1894, it prompted a nationwide shutdown
How the first superhighway in Chicago changed the city
Source » Robert Loerzel for WBEZ: And another reason to look at the Ike [I-290]: It was the first superhighway in the heart of Chicago. However, by the 1960s — after more expressways were built, more neighborhoods were torn up, and traffic
Learning: “At times may challenge you and even cause discomfort”
Source » University of Chicago: Our commitment to academic freedom means that we do not support so called ‘trigger warnings,’ we do not cancel invited speakers because their topics might prove controversial, and we do not condone the creation of intellectual
When the Lovable Losers are winning
Source » Jerry Useem in The Atlantic: Conventional wisdom has it that the Cubs are either cursed—by a billy goat, a black cat, a fan whose name we shall not speak—or, less cosmically, just plain unlucky. But are they
Dichotomized blame for the violence in Chicago
Dichotomized blame for the violence in Chicago Contact reporters for the Tribune: In many quarters, it’s common knowledge that Chicago’s system of investigating shootings by officers is flawed. But the Tribune’s examination of the system shows that
“Chicago Police Dept. audit reveals many of the department’s dashboard cameras have been deliberately sabotaged”
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