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I ended up doing this article because, back in November, a week before Thanksgiving, I was taking the bus past the intersection of Chicago and Laramie avenues and noticed a large, bright mural on the building at the northeast corner intersection that definitely wasn’t there back in June. I noticed the name of the artist - the iconic Chicago ( Read more... )

In Chicago, as in many parts of United States, the protests in the wake of George Floyd’s death drew renewed attention to police misconduct, and some of the more controversial aspects of Chicago Police Department operations. One of those is the School Resource Officers program. Basically, police officers are assigned to schools to provide security ( Read more... )

In the midst of a global pandemic, news breaks fast, and things can change quickly. Case and point - back on Thursday, I filed an article for the Chronicle Media newspapers about how libraries throughout the six-county Chicagoland region responded to COVID-19. At the time, most of the libraries already closed, with some doing a few extra things to ( Read more... )