Chicago
Chicago activists see “window of opportunity” to push for police reform
December 11, 2015The number of demonstrators has grown steadily since the release of the video of Laquan McDonald's murder. Organizers are hoping they will soon reach a critical mass.
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Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel must be impeached
December 5, 2015Rahm Emanuel has proven himself the most roughly drawn, one-dimensional of comic book villains, an insult to the city's intelligence and sustainability.
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Spike Lee’s “Chiraq” spotlights Chicago gun violence
November 10, 2015"Chiraq" is described as exploring the epidemic of gun violence on the South Side of Chicago, and black-on-black violence.
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Marxist sociologists to meet in Chicago
August 12, 2015This year's theme for the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting is "Sexualities in the Social World."
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Today in history: Novelist Saul Bellow born 100 years ago
June 10, 2015He would become one of America's great postwar authors, examining complex urban antiheroes at war with the society they live in.
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