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belle isle Sammy Davis Jr.'s Tonight Show love song to a city Kevin Reome
andy cobb The naming of 'Inside Vladimir' Kevin Reome
chicago pd Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow
chicago Citing experience selling marijuana, unemployed Chicagoans seek permits to sell legally Jason Weisberger
chicago Dave Riley, bassist for Big Black, RIP David Pescovitz
john henry vs the jokebot Cards Against Humanity's Thanksgiving livestream pits a machine learning model against human joke writers Cory Doctorow
restorative justice Chicago teachers declare victory after 11-day strike Cory Doctorow
fair contract now #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago's teachers are back on strike Cory Doctorow
Blues Brothers Chicago driver goes full Blues Brothers, plows through suburban mall Gina Loukareas
Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't Abandoned coyote pup gets the care it deserves Seamus Bellamy
contagious corruption Corruption is contagious: dirty cops make their partners dirty Cory Doctorow
pangea Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow
gig workers rising Uber drivers across America are going on strike — UPDATED Cory Doctorow
ReliAlert XC3 Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow
lori lightfoot Chicago's first gay, Black, woman mayor won all 50 wards, defeating the machine candidate with an anti-corruption campaign Cory Doctorow
modern art Free to a good home: 70 washed, empty cans of Popeye Spinach Cory Doctorow