Humboldt Park native Michael Mann’s new film Public Enemies, which portrays the life and death of one of the Chicago’s most notorious criminals, John Dillinger,
People who live in fear of airplane accidents, flu pandemics, and other such disasters are often cast as alarmist or paranoid, despite the painful fruition
No, this isn’t a post about Tweety’s reading habits, but close. This morning’s Tribune as well as the Chicago web publication Gapers Block both picked
This morning, Bernard Madoff, convicted master-mind of a giant Ponzi scheme that swindled investors out of $65 billion, was sentenced to 150 years in jail.
After being arrested in October of 2006 for the murder of acclaimed Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya, three men—two Chechen brothers and a former police investigator—were
At the press conference he held yesterday to explain his now-infamous weekend jaunt to Argentina, South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford seemed to be trying to
American Beginnings, 1500—1900 Edited by Edward Gray, Stephen Mihm, and Mark Peterson Our new series, American Beginnings will publish original books, written by scholars but
Just a quick post to point you towards Slate magazines’ weekly poem, which is currently featuring Peg Boyers, author of Hard Bread and more recently
This Friday evening, the Chicago officers who policed the 1968 Democratic Convention will reunite for the first time in 41 years. The gathering, billed by
The lure of a career playing professional basketball—those infamous “hoop dreams”—is often blamed for distracting young African Americans from their studies and pushing them to
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