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News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
‘We Are Witnesses: Chicago’

In 15 direct-to-camera testimonies, this Marshall Project video series gives voice to Chicagoans affected by the justice system.
- By The Marshall Project
- Tags: Feature, criminal justice, the marshall project, chicago police department, justice, police, cops, prison, victims, we are witnesses

News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
Video
‘I’m the bad guy now’: A retired cop on outing police misconduct

Bill Dorsch loved being a Chicago cop, then he witnessed misconduct by disgraced detective Reynaldo Guevara.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, criminal justice, the marshall project, chicago police department, justice, police, cops, prison, victims, Bill Dorsch, police misconduct, Reynaldo Guevara, wrongful convictions, Chicago Police Department, CPD, We Are Witness, clearance rates, Eddie Johnson, Video

News & Politics, Feature Sep 12, 2019
Video
Rewriting the narrative
- By Sarah Watts and Lucius Wisniewski
- Tags: Feature, criminal justice, the marshall project, chicago police department, justice, police, cops, prison, victims, we are witnesses, Video

City Life, Public Service Announcement Apr 26, 2019
Clear your name

Free advice for sealing your public record
- By Salem Collo-Julin
- Tags: Public Service Announcement, cannabis, justice, Legal aid, Marijuana, record, Weed, expungement

Blogs, Bleader Oct 31, 2018
Q&A: Cook County Board candidate Abdelnasser Rashid on taxes, surveillance, and campaign finance reform

Vying to flip one of four Republican seats, the 29-year-old would be the first Muslim in the county legislature.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Politics, Cook County, Abdelnasser Rashid, county board, county commissioner, Cook County Board of Commissioners, Sean Morrison, county budget, county legislature, property taxes, Fritz Kaegi, sexual misconduct, Countering Violent Extremism, CVE, development, property tax cap, property tax freeze, David Orr, Cook County Clerk, Palos Park, Justice, Orland Park, Des Plaines, Cook County 17th district, Jesús "Chuy" García, Bernie Sanders, Bridgeview, Cook County Forest preserve, small-donor financing

Blogs, Bleader Aug 30, 2017
Mother of teen killed by Chicago police officer Marco Proano ‘glad the verdict was guilty’

Proano never faced criminal charges for fatally shooting 19-year-old Niko Husband, whose family is still seeking justice.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: News, Criminal Justice, Marco Proano, Niko Husband, Chicago Police Department, Independent Police Review Authority, Elizabeth Budzinski, Priscilla Price, Donald Shapiro, criminal justice, lawsuit, civil suit, police shooting, fatal shooting, justice, juries

News & Politics, Feature Feb 24, 2016
Video
Can a lawsuit deliver justice after a fatal police shooting?

On a summer night in 2011, Chicago police officer Marco Proano shot 19-year-old Niko Husband outside a south-side dance party. The Independent Police Review Authority said the deadly shooting was justified. Then a civil jury took up the case.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, News, Marco Proano, Niko Husband, Chicago Police Department, Independent Police Review Authority, criminal justice, lawsuit, civil suit, police shooting, fatal shooting, justice, special interrogatories, juries, Video

Blogs, Bleader Feb 18, 2016
Why liberals should dearly miss Antonin Scalia, the Bond villain of Supreme Court justices

Progressives now have no one adversary of sufficient skill and smarts to galvanize them.
- By Ian Belknap
- Tags: RIP, The Contrarian, News, Antonin Scalia, Ian Belknap, liberal, conservative, Supreme Court, justice, RIP, Koch, Walton, MTV, Yo Mama

News & Politics, Feature Jan 7, 2016
Cook County's most unconventional judge takes justice beyond the bench

She sings, she dances, she shouts—she rings a cowbell. But Judge Jackie Portman is convinced her unorthodox methods in and out of the courtroom get results.
- By Maya Dukmasova
- Tags: Feature, Judge Jackie Portman, Justice, court, Englewood, Deferred Prosecution Program, Adult Redeploy Illinois program, Cook County, Chicago

Blogs, Bleader Dec 23, 2015
The 181 best things I ate and drank in 2015

A year of dining out and cooking yielded something uniquely delicious nearly every other day.
- By Mike Sula
- Tags: Food & Drink, Food Chain, Fahlstrom’s Fish Market, Baker Miller Bakery & Millhouse, The Duck Inn, Franklin Inn, Pita Alsharq, White Oak Tavern & Inn, Izakaya Mita, Hong Huah, Taste of Trinidad, La Lupita Salsa Diabla, Bascule Wine Bar, Qing Xiang Yuan Dumpling, Kokopelli, Roxie’s, Intro, Luella’s Southern Kitchen, Taus Authentic, The Angry Crab, Seven Lions, Furious Spoon, Rural Society, Little Lamb Hot Pot, Community Tavern, Presidio, Mindy Segal, Cookie Love, Ramen Takeya, Machetes Big Quesadillas, Boeufhaus, Paul Fehribach, The Big Jones Cookbook, C Chicago, Gary Wiviott, Colleen Rush, Low & Slow 2, Dinosaur Bar-B-Que, De Quay, Taco in a Bag, JustIce, ‘Nduja Artisans, Pub Royale, Bom Bolla, Luke’s Lobster, Nando’s, Fat Rice, Cherry Circle Room, Via Lima, Sunset Pho Caffe, Taste of Thai Town, Jerk Modern Jamaican Grill, Mithai Restora, Son of a Butcher, The Great American Cheese Collection, Johnny’s Grill, Jinya Ramen Bar, Bernie’s Lunch & Supper, 1871 Dairy, Dunajec Bakery & Deli, Dancen, Yeowoosai, Agit, BDG Sports Gastropub, Ju Rang Fusion Grill, Lure Izakaya, The Long Room, Cantina 1910, GreenRiver, Laura Frankel, Jewish Slow Cooker Recipes, The Cotton Duck, Sociale, Swift & Sons, JeanMarie Brownson, Dinner at Home, Graham Elliot, Cooking Like a Master Chef, Bar Marta, Wyler Road, Appellation Wine Bar, Pata Negra, Saladeo Grill, Latinicity

Blogs, Bleader May 15, 2014
Tough call: Justice and the NBA

NBA refs made the right calls, even if they weren't exactly right.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Media, Sports, News, NBA playoffs, Brooklyn Nets, Miami Heat, Oklahoma City Thunder, Los Angeles Clippers, justice, Reggie Jackson, Paul Pierce, Matt Barnes, LeBron James, Russell Westbrook, Chris Paul, Doc Rivers

Columns & Opinion, On Media Feb 11, 2014
An 'obsessive' Sun-Times reporter is vindicated by the Vanecko case—but not content

Tim Novak and his fellow newsroom crusaders brought justice to the family of David Koschman. But former Mayor Daley’s administration got off easy in the investigation into the fatal punch thrown by Daley's nephew.
- By Michael Miner
- Tags: Michael Miner on Media, Chicago Sun-Times, Tim Novak, journalism, investigative journalism, Patrick Daley, Robert Vanecko, R.J. Vanecko, David Koschman, Nancy Koschman, Mount Prospect, Chris Fusco, Chicago Police Department, CPD, Jody Weis, FOIA, Freedom of Information Act, Carol Marin, Chicago Tribune, Eric Zorn, Rolando Cruz, crime, Paul Biebel, special prosecutors, Rahm Emanuel, Richard M. Daley, Michael Toomin, Dan Webb, justice, obsessiveness, secret partnerships, sewer inspections

News & Politics, Feature Sep 18, 2013
A former investigator of police misconduct on the questions she never asked

I sat down with six ex-cops to talk about policing and excessive force–and to find out why cops do what they do.
- By Francine J. Sanders
- Tags: Feature, policing, CPD, Chicago Police Department, Larry Williams, OPS, Office of Professional Standards, police misconduct, excessive force, Andrew Wilson, Jon Burge, Police Board, IPRA, Independent Police Review Authority, interviews, police officers, former police officers, Bronzeville, neighborhoods, military training, Nathaniel Hanserd, fearlessness, 95th Street Gents, gangs, Cook County sheriff's department, Donna Adams, Donna's Cafe, South Loop, Englewood, investigations, drug dealers, drug houses, Julie Schalk, internal affairs, 1968 Democratic Convention, Albert Lee Parks, justice, police culture, crime, questions

News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
A dream unrealized for African-Americans in Chicago

When Martin Luther King Jr. gave his "I Have a Dream" speech in 1963, most blacks here were living in poor, segregated neighborhoods. They still are.
- By Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, "I Have a Dream" speech, ideals, history, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr., United States Constitution, Declaration of Independence, rights, race, segregation, inequality, jobs, Emancipation Proclamation, freedom, discrimination, equality, public schools, private schools, CPS, Chicago Public Schools, desegregation, Consortium on Chicago School Research, University of Chicago, civil rights, Social IMPACT, Heartland Alliance, crime, property values, Patrick Sharkey, Milwaukee, incarceration, books, manufacturing, public transportation, suburbs, William Julius Wilson, quality of life, racial differences, unemployment, employment gap, Rahm Emanuel, social sciences, jobs, education, poverty, schools, violence, justice, Beverly, Humboldt Park, dissimilarity index, Harold Washington, Barack Obama, neighborhoods, community areas, Urban League, Hyde Park, Near South Side, Near West Side, Near North Side, Lincoln Park, Rogers Park, Uptown, urban renewal, integration, unplanned integration, South Side, West Side

News & Politics, Feature Aug 21, 2013
Video
Fifty years later, participants in the March on Washington still hoping for justice

Organizers of the Chicago contingent in the 1963 March on Washington say it's time for another movement.
- By Steve Bogira and Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, history, 1963, civil rights, March on Washington, Washington, DC, Timuel Black, Martin Luther King Jr., segregation, Don Rose, Richard J. Daley, South Side, schools, Negro American Labor Council, NALC, A. Philip Randolph, jobs, violence, nonviolence, Montgomery bus boycott, Birmingham, Alabama, 4th Ward, Chicago Defender, integration, desegregation, organized labor, 63 boycott, minimum wage, federal jobs programs, Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, freedom trains, Chicago Tribune, James Ritch, Hyde Park, The New York Times, "I Have a Dream" speech, hope, Chicago Sun-Times, demonstrations, school boycotts, neighborhoods, poverty, justice, civil rights laws, Civil Rights Act, Voting Rights Act, Vietnam War, riots, activism, activists, Jane Byrne, Video

Music, Music Sidebar Jul 2, 2013
Sick beats and lake breezes at the Wavefront Music Festival

The dance party on the beach expands to three days, with Frankie Knuckles, Justice, James Murphy, Caspa, Fatboy Slim, Nicolas Jaar, and dozens more.
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Music Sidebar, Wavefront Music Festival, Montrose Beach, Frankie Knuckles, Derrick Carter, Jamie Principle, Rusko, Caspa, Justice, Access All Arenas, Diplo, James Murphy, LCD Soundsystem, Nancy Whang, Pat Mahoney, Nicolas Jaar

Blogs, Bleader Oct 24, 2012
The Reader's Agenda: Wed 10/24

What's on the Agenda for Wednesday, October 24, 2012
- By Drew Hunt
- Tags: Do This, Chicago History Museum, Second City, Tomb Talks and Ghost Stories, Congress Theater, Logan Square, Justice, Audio Video Disco, Miles Raymer, The Lincoln Lodge, Eat This! Stories for the Love of Food, Doug Sohn, Hot Doug's, Victoria Wiedel, Center Square Journal

Blogs, Bleader Oct 22, 2012
Best shows to see: Marc Riordan Quartet, Justice, Swans, and more

Marc Riordan Quartet, Swans, and Justice are among the highlights of this week's musical calendar
- By Peter Margasak
- Tags: Do This, Music, Marc Riordan Quartet, Sleeping Bag, Justice, Swans, Soundboard, concert listings, live music

Blogs, Bleader Aug 7, 2012
Video
Goblin goes for the gold

Vintage avant-garde psychedelic horror-movie music goes to the Olympics
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Paranormal, Music, John Carpenter, Goblin, Dario Argento, Raekwon, Neon Indian, Justice, Umberto, the Olympics, WTF, Russia, synchronized swimming, Video

Blogs, Bleader Dec 6, 2011
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The five best stoner records of the year

Load up the bong and our YouTube playlist
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: The Reefer, Weed Week, Music, Variations on a Theme, Weed Week, Clams Casino, Lil B, Soulja Boy, Wolves in the Throne Room, James Pants, Beck, Stones Throw, Justice, Jay-Z, Kanye West, Mike Dean, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jul 23, 2010
Shell Shock

Before texting, we still had peanuts to worry about
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Peanuts, driving, automobile, wife beater, justice

Blogs, Bleader Feb 12, 2010
Get Off My Lawn!

Acid reflex, base behavior
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Neighbors, children, acid, syringe, quarreling, law enforcement, justice, feuding, appeal, fine, $25

Blogs, Bleader Jan 7, 2010
Whipping Boys

Everybody loved to hate a wife beater
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, Wife beaters, wife beating, law enforcement, crime and punishment, domestic violence, double standards, gender, spousal abuse, legal system, vigilantism, mince pie, whipping post, pillory, justice, judges, suicide, race, Maryland, Oregon, Delaware

Blogs, Bleader Dec 21, 2009
"You can't get a jury to convict a good-looking woman"

Gender and justice in Progressive-Era Chicago
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, murder, juries, gender, John McCutcheon, cartoons, uxoricide, matricide, homicide, law enforcement, justice

Blogs, Bleader Dec 17, 2009
Murder, Inc.

There were a million ways to die in the Windy City.
- By Cliff Doerksen
- Tags: Bad News From the Past, We're Old, John McCutcheon, cartoons, uxoricide, homicide, law enforcement, ethnic stereotypes, gambling, gender, law enforcement, justice

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