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Home » murder

Tag: murder

Posted inNews & Politics

Have you seen these 51 women?

by Ben Austen February 17, 2021August 18, 2021

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.

Posted inNews & Politics

No complaints

by Mari Cohen July 30, 2020August 18, 2021

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

by Maya Dukmasova May 12, 2020August 18, 2021

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’

by Mari Cohen November 20, 2019August 18, 2021

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

by Jamie Ludwig March 11, 2019August 18, 2021

Current musical obsessions of producer and DJ Ariel Zetina, photographer Julia Dratel, and Reader associate editor Jamie Ludwig

Posted inCity Life

The mayor’s assassin

by Joe Mason February 12, 2019August 18, 2021

Revisiting a murder in the White City.

Posted inArts & Culture

La Ruta lacks drama, but it presents a persuasive series of snapshots of life in Ciudad Juárez

by Justin Hayford December 26, 2018August 18, 2021

Isaac Gomez’s play feels drawn directly from lived experience.

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Did an accused sex-orgy killer lose his academic due process?

by Deanna Isaacs August 29, 2017August 18, 2021

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

by Steve Heisler August 28, 2017August 18, 2021

Yas Queen! at the Playground, Joseph Chilliams at Schubas, and more happenings August 28-31

Posted inBlogs

Emanuel: Rauner is ‘governing through anger’ by vetoing CPS funding, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd August 3, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, a Northwestern professor and an Oxford University employee are wanted for murder in connection with a stabbing death in River North.

Posted inBlogs

Dick Durbin won’t run against Bruce Rauner in 2018, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd November 17, 2016August 18, 2021

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

by Derrick Clifton October 10, 2016August 18, 2021

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?

by Mick Dumke June 1, 2015August 18, 2021

Convicted drug dealer Jason Austin, held accountable for killing a cop and social worker, appeals his sentence.

Posted inBlogs

A 19th-century Chicago murder case raises questions about the criminal justice system—then and now

by Mick Dumke May 14, 2015August 18, 2021

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

by Gwynedd Stuart February 25, 2015August 18, 2021

Andrew Jarecki’s documentary miniseries will hook you like Serial did.

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