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Blogs, Bleader Feb 24, 2017
Mayor Rahm and Alderman Lopez cut a deal on the property tax rebate

The mayor promised to raise $45 million in donations to fund job training and violence intervention.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: News, Politics, Crime, Criminal Justice, Rahm Emanuel, Raymond Lopez, CeaseFire, violence in Chicago, City Council, Donald Trump, property tax rebate, Rick Munoz, Leslie Hairston

Blogs, Bleader Aug 31, 2016
CPD moves to fire Jason Van Dyke and other cops involved in Laquan McDonald shooting, and other Chicago news

Also, a call to bring back CeaseFire with $3 million in state funding.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Laquan McDonald, Jason Van Dyke, Eddie Johnson, police brutality, Chicago Police Department, CeaseFire, Tio Hardiman, gun violence, gang violence, food trucks, Rahm Emanuel, Chicago Public Schools, Troy LaRaviere, Brookfield Zoo, Cookie

Music, Music Feature Jul 27, 2016
Video
Can Vic Mensa radicalize Lollapalooza?

The Chicago rapper publicly supports Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights, among other progressive causes—which makes him an interesting fit for a festival that tries to please everyone.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Vic Mensa, Save Money, Kids These Days, There’s Alot Going On, Lollapalooza, Pepsi Stage, Grant Park, Perry Farrell, Innanetape, Respect My Vote!, Hip Hop Caucus, Black Lives Matter, Black Youth Project 100, Malik Yusef, Free Love, 16 Shots, Laquan McDonald, Alton Sterling, Philando Castile, Justice for Flint, One Campaign, Rock the Vote, HeadCount, Syd Rocks, Working Bikes, CeaseFire, Center on Halsted, Cure Violence, Aja Monet, Blood Orange, Bike 4 Life, Chicago Cares, Straight Up, Whispers, Nico Segal, Towkio, Queen, Pride, Traphouse Rock, Pulse, Orlando, Video

City Life, Summer Guide May 18, 2016
Slideshow
Striving for a peaceful summer in a very violent year

With youth sports leagues and summer jobs programs, Englewood community groups will try to keep kids occupied and out of harm’s way.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Summer Guide, News, Englewood, Perry Gunn, Teamwork Englewood, CeaseFire, Mark Payne, Hamilton Park, Larry Watson, Jackie Robinson West, Hoops in the Hood, One Summer Plus, Sara Heller, Science Magazine, Lisa Morrison Butler, Department of Family and Support Services, Eddie Johnson, Slideshow

Blogs, Bleader Mar 30, 2016
Video
Chicago rapper Wil Akogu fights against inner and outer enslavement on 'Buried Alive'

On his recent EP, The Language of the Soul, 19-year-old Wil Akogu turns his journey to find himself into an invitation to other lost brethren.
- By Tiffany Walden
- Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Wil Akogu, Most Valuable Poet, Buried Alive, The Language of the Soul, Liam Trumble, Tio Hardiman, CeaseFire, Jedidiah Brown, Schaumburg, Nigeria, Video

Music, Gossip Wolf Oct 8, 2014
Gossip Wolf: Jimmy Whispers throws a basketball tournament to benefit CeaseFire

Plus: Suburban death metal from Starkill, Fred Schneider of the B-52s at the Fall Ball, and more
- By J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil
- Tags: Gossip Wolf, Jimmy Whispers, Empty Bottle, CeaseFire, Hollywood Holt, Smith Westerns, Twin Peaks, Mines, the Lemons, Heavy Times, Starfoxxx, Radar Eyes, Magic Milk, DJ Gant-Man, Era, McHenry County, Starkill, Cary, Illinois, Virus of the Mind, Century Media, Arch Enemy, Beyond Deth, Logan Square Auditorium, B-52s, Fred Schneider, Impala Sound, Outer Minds

Film, Movie Feature Jul 2, 2014
Reluctant auteur Steve James on life and Life Itself

The man behind Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and the new Roger Ebert chronicle Life Itself is one of America's most well-respected documentarians, but you probably couldn't pick Steve James out of a lineup.
- By Ben Sachs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Steve James, film, filmmakers, PBS, Hoop Dreams, CeaseFire, The Interrupters, Stevie, Big Brothers, The New Americans, Life Itself, Roger Ebert, movies, Oak Park, Kartemquin Films, gardening, Rushville, Illinois, work, Judy James, sex offenders, careers, family, Hollywood, narrative film, television, TV, documentaries, Peter Gilbert, Prefontaine, James Madison University, auteurs, Alex Kotlowitz, Frederick Marx, film credits, SIU, Southern Illinois University, Big Muddy Film Festival, Jerry Blumenthal, Gordon Quinn, David Simpson, Leslie Simmer, film criticism, Errol Morris, Jean Renoir, Orson Welles, humor, Flame-O Coby

Blogs, Bleader Mar 4, 2014
Democrat Tio Hardiman wants you to know that he and his campaign for governor still exist

The longtime antiviolence activist vows to "shock the world" in the March 18 Democratic gubernatorial primary.
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Politics, News, Tio Hardiman, CeaseFire, Brunell Donald, governor, lieutenant governor, Illinois, Bruce Rauner, 2014 primaries, 2014 elections, primaries, campaign finance, donations, Pat Quinn, Michael Madigan, Rahm Emanuel, school closings, Uptown, violence, unemployment

Music, Music Feature Oct 28, 2013
Video
Listen closely to Jimmy Whispers

Jimmy Whispers’s cryptic street art and almost childlike love songs have a powerful antiviolence subtext—and his Summer in Pain Festival this weekend benefits CeaseFire.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Jimmy Whispers, street art, Chic-a-Go-Go, festivals, CeaseFire, Cure VIolence, benefit concerts, Logan Square, Parenthetical Girls, Empty Bottle, Alex Kotlowitz, Steve James, documentaries, zines, gun violence, Patricia Broughton, J.R. Nelson, Gossip Wolf, Advance Base, Plastic Crimewave Syndicate, Cool Memories, J Fernandez, Chandeliers, Yawn, Mines, Ono, Bill Satek, Ratso, scoreboards, iPods, Tastee Freez, corn dogs, t-shirts, Waldheim Cemetery, Forest Park, Video

Best of Chicago, City Life Jun 19, 2013
Critics' Picks
Best Community Organization

Southwest Organizing Project
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: City Life, SWOP, Southwest Organizing Project, CeaseFire, MacArthur Foundation, grants, neighborhoods, vacant properties, schools, parents, Chicago Lawn, foreclosures, Critics' Picks

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2013
Doing it wrong on guns, Chicago-style

With guns as in schools, mental health, and economic development—you can count on Chicago to do the wrong thing.
- By Ben Joravsky
- Tags: Politics, News, Mayor Rahm Emanuel, Mayor Richard J. Daley, Boss, Mike Royko, DePaul University, Tax Increment Financing, Mick Dumke, Addicted to Guns, Ceasefire, Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy

News & Politics, Feature May 8, 2013
Audio
Addicted to guns

Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- By Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, 24th Ward, 911, addiction, Anita Alvarez, Antonio Villaraigosa, ATF, Barack Obama's house, basketball, cannabis, CeaseFire, Charlie Beck, Chicago Police Department, Chicago Tribune, Christopher Koper, City Colleges, City Council, conflict resolution, conflicts, Connie Rice, Cook County state's attorney, CPD, crime, drinking, drug dealing, drug territory, Englewood, Evans Mob, ex-offenders, Frederick Seaton, gang members, gang territory, gangs, Gangster Disciples, Gary McCarthy, George Mason University, Greater Grand Crossing, gun laws, gun violence, guns, Hadiya Pendleton, Hales Franciscan High School, high school basketball, interruption, Jack Tweedle, Kennedy-King College, liquor stores, Los Angeles, Los Angeles Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Develop, marijuana, Marilyn Pitchford, Michael Chandler, Michael Davis, murder, Napoleon English, neighborhoods, Phil Cline, police overtime, policing, poverty, prison, Project Safe Neighborhoods, punishment, race, Rahm Emanuel, restaurants, Richard M. Daley, roots of violence, Safer Foundation, Sheldon Smith, shootings, social services, South Side, The Crime Report, Tony Wade, Turkey Chop, U.S. attorney, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, U.S. Department of Justice, Vice Lords, violence, violence interrupters, Violence Reduction Strategy, West Humboldt Park, Audio

Columns & Opinion, On Media Mar 20, 2012
Can the virus of violence be filmed?

A gang crimes cop points out what The Interrupters missed
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Ceasefire, gang violence, Tio Hardiman, interrupting, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, Englewood, Little Village, gangbanging, drug trade

Film, Movie Feature Jul 7, 2011
The Interrupters: Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz document CeaseFire
- By Deanna Isaacs
- Tags: Movie Feature, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, CeaseFire, Tio Hardiman, The Interrupters, Cobe Williams, Eddie Bocanegra, Ameena Matthews, Hoop Dreams

Blogs, Bleader Jan 19, 2011
Video
The Interrupters

Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz tail former gang members addressing urban violence as a public health crisis in the Kartemquin Films documentary "The Interrupters," premiering Friday 1/21 at the Sundance Film Festival.
- By Ed M. Koziarski
- Tags: Film, Jeff Fort, Ameena Matthews, CeaseFire, Interrupters, Sundance, film festival, Steve James, Alex Kotlowitz, Kartemquin, documentary, Hoop Dreams, There Are No Children Here, Black P. Stones, El Rukns, gang, violence, AIDS, cholera, epidemic, urban, Gary Slutkin, Video

Blogs, Bleader May 5, 2008
Distributed gangbanging pt. 3

Alex Kotlowitz profiles CeaseFire, Chicago's turn-the-other-cheek SWAT team.
- By Whet Moser
- Tags: News, Chicagoland, Crime, Alex Kotlowitz, CeaseFire, gangs

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The mayor promised to raise $45 million in donations to fund job training and violence intervention.

Also, a call to bring back CeaseFire with $3 million in state funding.

The Chicago rapper publicly supports Black Lives Matter and LGBT rights, among other progressive causes—which makes him an interesting fit for a festival that tries to please everyone.

With youth sports leagues and summer jobs programs, Englewood community groups will try to keep kids occupied and out of harm’s way.

On his recent EP, The Language of the Soul, 19-year-old Wil Akogu turns his journey to find himself into an invitation to other lost brethren.

Plus: Suburban death metal from Starkill, Fred Schneider of the B-52s at the Fall Ball, and more

The man behind Hoop Dreams, The Interrupters, and the new Roger Ebert chronicle Life Itself is one of America's most well-respected documentarians, but you probably couldn't pick Steve James out of a lineup.

The longtime antiviolence activist vows to "shock the world" in the March 18 Democratic gubernatorial primary.

Jimmy Whispers’s cryptic street art and almost childlike love songs have a powerful antiviolence subtext—and his Summer in Pain Festival this weekend benefits CeaseFire.

Southwest Organizing Project

With guns as in schools, mental health, and economic development—you can count on Chicago to do the wrong thing.

Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?

A gang crimes cop points out what The Interrupters missed

Steve James and Alex Kotlowitz tail former gang members addressing urban violence as a public health crisis in the Kartemquin Films documentary "The Interrupters," premiering Friday 1/21 at the Sundance Film Festival.

Alex Kotlowitz profiles CeaseFire, Chicago's turn-the-other-cheek SWAT team.

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