Beyond The Numbers, Living Through Chicago’s Gun Violence In ‘American Summer’
Alex Kotlowitz talks to NPR’s Michel Martin about his book American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago.
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Alex Kotlowitz talks to NPR’s Michel Martin about his book American Summer: Love and Death in Chicago.
NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Chicago political columnist Laura Washington about what makes the city — and its elections — so unique.
The Obama Foundation has raised more than a quarter of a billion dollars so far to build the Obama Presidential Center on Chicago’s South Side. Key to the Foundation’s mission are programs to train …
NPR’s Michel Martin talks with Jenn White, the host of “16 Shots,” a podcast from WBEZ and The Chicago Tribune, about the shooting death of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald and the city’s long history of …
Illinois Sen. Tammy Duckworth tells NPR’s Ailsa Chang about meeting Sen. John McCain for the first time when she was a wounded veteran in Walter Reed Medical Center. McCain died Saturday at 81.
The idea has already sparked warnings about consequences for immigrants and the nation’s health care system.
In Chicago, one of the bloodiest weekend’s in recent history has the city’s Mayor and Police superintendent calling for neighbors to speak up. From Friday evening to Sunday night, 33 shooting …
The Chicago artist’s graphic novel “My Favorite Thing Is Monsters” won three Eisners, the highest award in mainstream comics.
Immigration lawyers had argued that the children and their parents were held in inhumane conditions.
The Chicago Crime Commission recently published an update to its gang book.