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Jane Does

by Madeleine Schwartz, Heather Booth, Laura Kaplan, Jeanne Galatzer-Levy, Judith Arcana,

From conversations between Madeleine Schwartz, a journalist, and members of the Abortion Counseling Service of Women’s Liberation, later known as Jane, an underground railroad for reproductive care that was started…

The Untouchables

From incidents since 2011 in which the use of force by Chicago police officers was deemed reasonable or justifiable by supervisors or the city’s Independent Police Review Authority. The incidents…

S.O.B. Story

From a complaint filed in an Illinois circuit court last year by Robert Rialmo, a Chicago police officer, against the family of Quintonio LeGrier, a nineteen-year-old black man who was…

Town Criers

From a village board meeting held in June in Mount Prospect, Illinois. Tykables, a company that serves adult-baby diaper lovers, opened a storefront in the village two months earlier. Arlene…

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

by Monte Reel,

Predicting murder on Chicago’s South Side

Chicago Is the Future

by Thomas Frank,

It was in 1988 that I moved to the bedraggled neighborhood of Hyde Park in order to study American history at the University of Chicago. I left the city ten…

America by the Yard

by Nathan Deuel,

From Baghdad to the Menard County Fair

One Porn Every Minute

by John Steele,

From a complaint filed against several bloggers by John Steele, an Illinois attorney whose firm, Prenda Law, claims its mission is to fight copyright piracy. According to court documents, Prenda…

Other Types of Poison

by Rebecca Makkai,

Three legends

Meanie mart

by William Ernst,

The Last Tower

by Ben Austen,

The decline and fall of public housing