If there wasn’t a serial killer who picked off dozens of victims without detection for decades, then the city was broken in a way that gave off the illusion of one.
Tag: murder
Posted inNews & Politics
No complaints
Roosevelt Myles spent 28 years in prison, only to be released into a world in lockdown. He’s happier than he’s been in a long time.
Posted inNews & Politics
One murder, four years, no answers
A mother takes to podcasting wondering if CPD did “a cover-up or are they just this damn incompetent?”
Posted inNews & Politics
‘The big house and the picket fence’
Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”
Posted inMusic
DJ and producer Ariel Zetina on a beautifully transgressive Portuguese beat genius
Current musical obsessions of producer and DJ Ariel Zetina, photographer Julia Dratel, and Reader associate editor Jamie Ludwig
Posted inArts & Culture
La Ruta lacks drama, but it presents a persuasive series of snapshots of life in Ciudad Juárez
Isaac Gomez’s play feels drawn directly from lived experience.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Did an accused sex-orgy killer lose his academic due process?
Northwestern professor Wyndham Lathem has been charged with first-degree murder, but the university may not have followed protocol when they fired him.
Posted inBlogs
Game of Thrones wrap party, Noir City film festival, Fringe Fest, and more of the best things to do in Chicago this week
Yas Queen! at the Playground, Joseph Chilliams at Schubas, and more happenings August 28-31
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Emanuel: Rauner is ‘governing through anger’ by vetoing CPS funding, and other Chicago news
Also, a Northwestern professor and an Oxford University employee are wanted for murder in connection with a stabbing death in River North.
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Dick Durbin won’t run against Bruce Rauner in 2018, and other Chicago news
Also, Governor Bruce Rauner and President-Elect Donald Trump spoke for the first time last week.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
Activists won’t let Chicago forget that black trans lives matter
A community in pain rallies for TT Saffore, a black trans woman killed in Chicago last month.
Posted inBlogs
Who lied in drug and double murder case: Police or their key witness?
Convicted drug dealer Jason Austin, held accountable for killing a cop and social worker, appeals his sentence.
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A 19th-century Chicago murder case raises questions about the criminal justice system—then and now
Gillian O’Brien’s new book Blood Runs Green examines the political ramifications of the 1889 murder of an Irish doctor in Chicago.
Posted inBlogs
On HBO’s The Jinx, billionaire Robert Durst is the anti-Adnan
Andrew Jarecki’s documentary miniseries will hook you like Serial did.