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Garry McCarthy’s predecessor saw a spike in crimes early in his tenure running the Chicago Police Department—including 64 murders in July of 2008. The numbers came down, however, and cops and aldermen are looking back to the adjustments Weis made.
Do more coffee shops equal less crime? In Chicago, during a critical period in the city’s violent history, the answer is yes: for homicides, at least. The results for robbery, however, are interestingly dependent on race.
How often people check out items, and how often they use CPL computers, versus socioeconomic data. Plus: e-books and downloadable media would be the equivalent of Chicago’s third-biggest library.
Noah Isackson profiles Garry McCarthy as the police superintendent deals with rising homicides, low manpower, and an intractable gang problem; meanwhile, Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky show how all that resulted in the marijuana-decriminalization ordinance.
Today’s near-record high, coming right after a record-high Fourth of July, lifted temperatures higher than we’ve seen in years—but it’s still nothing like Chicago in the 1930s. Plus: why increasing low temperatures are more worrisome, and the possibility that corn might have something to do with that.
As soon as I saw the Sun-Times’s headline last week, “U. of C. prof wants to shelve Obama library idea,” I knew the story was about Charles Lipson. In the article, by Abdon Pallasch, the political science professor objects to housing the Obama complex because…
After a surprisingly chill NATO, Chicago’s police superintendent was the man of the hour. But the recent spate of violent weekends, and fear that the body count could continue to rise as summer marches on, threaten to tarnish the resumé of this one-time rising star.
Progress in decreasing homicides is difficult to sustain
About 78 years ago, Chicago went through not just the Depression, but the hottest day ever recorded in the city. On one stagnant day, the city baked… but the Tribune Tower was pleasantly refreshing.
