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Home » Chicago crime

Tag: Chicago crime

Posted inBlogs

Financial woes have Chicago State University worrying about its accreditation, and other news

by Kate Shepherd July 14, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, the Chicago Hamilton cast is full of Broadway stars.

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Overtime cost the Chicago Police Department more than $116 million in 2015, and other news

by Kate Shepherd April 6, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, test your constitutional law knowledge with one of Professor Barack Obama’s final exams.

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Notes on Crime

by Whet Moser September 3, 2010August 19, 2021

What happened to Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods?

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On Snitchin’

by Whet Moser July 20, 2010August 19, 2021

The mayor condemns the culture of silence… on the streets.

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Who’s the Man? And Who’s the Dog He Bit?

by Whet Moser August 11, 2009August 19, 2021

Mark Brown: “Some readers, viewers and listeners, however, believe they have detected a pattern all right: that all it takes to make news on the North Side is a mugging while on the South Side it pretty much requires somebody getting killed, and even then, there has to be a sympathetic victim or other extenuating […]

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