The West Side neighborhood has 34 homicides in the past 12 months, by far the most of any community area. But it’s also the largest community area in Chicago. What happens when you break down the numbers a bit?
After announcing on Friday that her last column would run on August 6, the Sun-Times’s Stella Foster, who has been writing “Stella’s Column” (the successor to the legendary “Kup’s Column”) since December 2003, told me in a telephone interview Monday that it was her decision to retire…
A DATA WITH DESTINY: Skilled analysis of information about voters may help determine who wins the White House this November
After spending 25 years in prison, Michael Tillman settled with the city for over $5 million dollars, the latest judgement to come out of the Burge torture scandal.
HALL PASS: Sizing up the White Sox star’s bid for Cooperstown
In mid-May, very little of Illinois was abnormally dry. By mid-June, practically the entire state was in severe drought, or worse. It’s another summer of “flash drought,” and Iowa State researchers are busy making corn crops that can survive a hotter future.
The Tribune reported last week that Tammy Duckworth, the Democratic challenger in the race for the 8th District, outraised the tea party-backed freshman, Joe Walsh, in the second quarter. Duckworth’s $888,790 total take included almost $50,000 “steered” to her by J Street, a D.C.-based PAC that is finding a stronghold here in Chicago…
The theater shootings in Aurora, Colorado—just miles from Columbine, and coming after NIU and Virginia Tech—have gun control back in the news again. Similar incidents led to the 1994 assault-weapons ban, though it was not particularly good or effective law. Public policy is difficult, but that’s not a reason for hopelessness.
THIS WAY OUT?: The Final Exit Network president has helped 14 gravely ill people end their lives. Now, at 81, the Highland Park resident faces a terminal illness himself
For the weekend, two of the best articles I’ve read in awhile—about a teen killer from rural Indiana, and the isolated subcultures of GLBTQ life in in Boystown.
