Archives: April, 2007

The Stroll: A Blues Requiem For Stateway Gardens

Friday, April 27th 2007; 3:21pm
Tags: Eight Blocks conference, public housing, Stateway Gardens
"The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.” - Milan Kundera My mission—with multimedia help from my colleagues David Eads, Patricia Evans, and Jason Reblando—is to place and ground the conversation that...

Ruth Young (1938-2007)

Monday, April 23rd 2007; 2:25am
Tags: Ruth Young
In interviews occasioned by the publication of his book Will The Circle Be Unbroken?: Reflections on Death, Rebirth, and Hunger for a Faith, Ruth’s dear friend Studs Terkel described himself as “an agnostic.” In other words, he said, “a cowardly...

Statement on civilian review of the police

Friday, April 6th 2007; 5:00am
Tags: police
On April 5, 2007, Professor Craig Futterman of the University of Chicago Law School and Jamie Kalven issued a statement titled "The Need for Independent Civilian Review of the Chicago Police Department."