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Posted inNews & Politics

A social service program on the brink

by Steve Bogira July 1, 2016August 18, 2021

Home visiting helps at-risk mothers be better parents. But the program itself was put at risk by the budget impasse, and remains in jeopardy despite the stopgap deal.

Posted inBlogs

A primer on the shiny new Illinois budget

by Steve Bogira July 1, 2016August 18, 2021

“Does this mean Rauner and Madigan are now friends?” and other key questions answered.

Posted inBlogs

New Joe Maddon strategy comes out of left field

by Steve Bogira June 29, 2016August 18, 2021

The Cubs’ manager orchestrates an extra-inning victory just as the not-time-to-panic stage was looming.

Posted inBest of Chicago

Fifty years after Dr. King’s march in Marquette Park, racial integration remains elusive in Chicago

by Steve Bogira June 23, 2016August 18, 2021

The park no longer is a symbol of bigotry, but it isn’t a success story either.

Posted inBlogs

IPRA’s new video archive does little to cut through the fog of Chicago police shootings

by Steve Bogira June 8, 2016August 18, 2021

The surplus of footage made available by IPRA reveals more about the limitations of video than it does about the nature of police shootings.

Posted inArts & Culture

The trials after exoneration

by Steve Bogira June 7, 2016August 18, 2021

In Exoneree Diaries, journalist Alison Flowers documents the struggles of four murder convicts who were absolved and freed.

Posted inBlogs

Rahm Emanuel’s plan for a healthy, segregated Chicago

by Steve Bogira May 23, 2016August 18, 2021

A report by the mayor’s public health department offers 200 “actionable strategies” to diminish health inequities. Reducing segregation isn’t one of them.

Posted inCity Life

Striving for a peaceful summer in a very violent year

by Steve Bogira May 18, 2016August 18, 2021

With youth sports leagues and summer jobs programs, Englewood community groups will try to keep kids occupied and out of harm’s way.

Posted inBlogs

State OKs money for colleges but not yet for programs that help young children

by Steve Bogira April 29, 2016August 18, 2021

Home visiting programs send nurses and social workers to coach mothers in nurturing their newborns. They also save the state money down the line.

Posted inBlogs

Here’s what’s missing from the Police Accountability Task Force report

by Steve Bogira April 21, 2016August 18, 2021

Poverty and segregation underlie many of our policing problems, but don’t expect a task force to address them.

Posted inBlogs

Two panels on Chicago police misconduct found the same problems 43 years apart

by Steve Bogira April 20, 2016August 18, 2021

The findings of the Police Accountability Task Force are depressingly familiar.

Posted inBlogs

Hopped up on fictions about crack, Clinton defends his 1994 crime bill

by Steve Bogira April 14, 2016August 18, 2021

The former president relies on a super-predator stereotype of his own to justify his bill’s harsh sentences.

Posted inBlogs

White Sox and Cubs are both 2-0 for first time since 1951

by Steve Bogira April 6, 2016August 18, 2021

Martin Kennelly was mayor the last time both clubs won their first pair in the same season, 65 years ago.

Posted inBlogs

Torture Commission can only help victims whose torture stemmed from Burge

by Steve Bogira April 5, 2016August 18, 2021

Other convicts who may have been tortured into confessing are out of luck, an appellate panel rules.

Posted inBlogs

Here’s the video that led IPRA to call for the firing of police officer Francisco Perez

by Steve Bogira April 4, 2016August 18, 2021

A police board hearing begins Tuesday for the officer accused of shooting 16 times at the wrong car.

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