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The Violin Doctor

by Seyward Darby January 26, 2023January 26, 2023

“He’s trusted to repair some of the world’s most fabled — and expensive — instruments. How does John Becker manage to unlock the sound of a Stradivarius?”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Heat Listed

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 27, 2021October 19, 2022

“He could be the shooter, he might get shot. They didn’t know. But the data said he was at risk either way.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

Left in the Dark

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands November 17, 2020October 19, 2022

“Tens of thousands of moments were never captured on Chicago Police body cameras. Lax oversight allows it to happen.”

Posted inBooks, Crime, Culture, History, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘They Happen To Be Our Neighbors Across the Span of a Century, But They’re Our Neighbors.’

by Adam Morgan June 12, 2019October 19, 2022

One hundred summers ago, black Chicagoans were terrorized by whites during the Red Summer. Poet Eve Ewing talks about reaching out to her neighbors across time in “1919.”

Posted inBooks, Crime, Current Events, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘There’s Virtually No Conversation In Chicago … About the Aftershocks of the Violence.’

by Hope Reese April 2, 2019October 19, 2022

In “An American Summer,” journalist Alex Kotlowitz tries to report on gun deaths on Chicago’s South Side with the same attention to survivors, anniversaries, and aftershocks that is paid to mass shootings.

Posted inArts & Culture, Current Events, Nonfiction, Story

Remembering Ken Nordine

by Tom Maxwell February 19, 2019October 19, 2022

The ambitious radio personality created his own form of expression, called “word jazz,” to properly accomodate his musical voice and artistic ambitions.

Posted inCrime, Current Events, education, Nonfiction, Story

The Battle Over Teaching Chicago’s Schools About Police Torture and Reparations

by Peter C. Baker February 7, 2019October 19, 2022

A little-known city law has educators figuring out how to talk to eighth and tenth grade students about the history of Chicago police abuse.

Posted inCurrent Events, Essays & Criticism, Highlight, History, Quotes

‘Black Flight’ out of Chicago

by Danielle Jackson January 31, 2019October 12, 2022

By 2030, Chicago’s Black population will have decreased by half a million people in 50 years.

Posted inBooks, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Falling in Love with Chicago at Night: An Interview with Jessica Hopper

by Ashley Naftule September 28, 2018October 19, 2022

In “Night Moves,” Jessica Hopper is 80% on her bike and 20% at a show, memorializing a young adulthood spent in just one of “a million Chicagos” — but one that shaped a wide network of artists and writers.

Posted inCurrent Events, Highlight, Quotes, Uncategorized

Ida B. Wells-Barnett Was Born Today in 1862

by Danielle Jackson July 16, 2018October 19, 2022

Pioneering investigative journalist Ida B. Wells-Barnett was born July 16, 1862.

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