Features
The Night Fred Hampton Died
An excerpt of a new book on the Black Panther leader’s death and its aftermath by People’s Law Office cofounder Jeffrey Haas
My Dad Did It
Steve Hodel, the retired LA cop who pinned the Black Dahlia murder on his pop, believes he was also Chicago’s Lipstick Killer.
By Mike Lenehan
A Queer Eye, an Open Mind
A new anthology, and a new appreciation, for local gay writer Jon-Henri Damski
By Michael Miner
Chicago’s Life Story
Popular Columbia College prof Dominic Pacyga’s been telling the city’s history in pieces for years. Now he’s put it all together.
By Deanna Isaacs
Reviews
Animals and Objects In and Out of Water: Posters by Jay Ryan 2005-2008 | Jay Ryan | Akashic Books
Cowboys Full: The Story of Poker | James McManus | Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Mean Streets: Chicago Youths and the Everyday Struggle for Empowerment in the Multiracial City, 1908-1969 | Andrew J. Diamond | University of California Press
My Father’s Bonus March | Adam Langer | Spiegel & Grau
On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears | Stephen T. Asma | Oxford University Press
The Second City Unscripted: Revolution and Revelation at the World-Famous Comedy Theater | Mike Thomas | Villard