Audie’s dead. Audie Mickens, that is. Name doesn’t ring a bell? Mickens gained his 15 minutes of fame four years ago, when the Home Box Office documentary “Hard Times at Douglass High” was released. Actually, it was more like 15 seconds of infamy. At the time the documentary was made, Douglass, yes, […]
CHICAGO (AP) — Police say 13 people were shot and wounded in a 30-minute spate of violence in Chicago, including eight gunned down on a single street. Authorities have been battling an increase in homicides in the city where some aldermen complain gangs have no fear of the police. Police say a drive-by shooting on […]
Desperate times are fostering desperate reactions in Chicago, where even before the calendar so much as officially turned to summer a spiraling gang problem now has the city wickedly on course toward recording the most homicides of any year in its history. Mayor Rahm Emmanuel is championing a high-stakes, aspirational crime-busting alliance between the city’s […]
Consider this, dear readers, a quintessential rock and hard place tale. The hard place: all those Chicago citizens caught in that city’s violence this year. As of June 30, some 261 people have been murdered in the Windy City. That’s a 38 percent increase over 2011. And Chicago’s most homicidal have, it seems, only just […]
Why is there no national outrage about what is taking place in Chicago? And I am not talking about national dialogue…talk. We retweet the murder numbers for weekends in Chicago like they are scores from the basketball game and then say "Damn, what a shame." When 15 people get killed in a weekend outside of […]
