Chicago

Chicago is the third most populous city in the United States, with more than 2.7 million residents. Chicago is located at the southwestern end of Lake Michigan in the American Midwest. Chicago is the county seat of Cook County, in the northeast of the state of Illinois.

I used to live in Chicago, at various addresses in the Hyde Park neighborhood and in North Center near Lincoln Square.

City of Chicago (city government) website: www.chicago.gov

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The People Issue 2022 – Chicago Reader

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The People Issue 2022 – Chicago Reader There’s a lot of great writing here in this, the return of The People Issue to the Chicago Reader after a break since the 2016 People Issue. I did a lot of work on the online formatting and navigation for this one—with a lot of trial and error … Read more

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calumet412:

Looking north from what is now Michigan Ave and Pearson, 1871, Chicago. 

The photo was taken from the Water Tower, its shadow in the lower right corner of the shot.

The ruins in the foreground are from the Lill & Diversy Brewery, once the largest brewer in the city. And yes, though now spelled Diversey, the street was named for this prominent beer maker.

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Juries are asked to consider whether a defendant committed a particular act; they’re not supposed to decide cases based on evidence suggesting a tendency to commit such acts. ‘Propensity’ evidence—which indicates that a defendant has done similar things on other occasions—is therefore usually inadmissible. ¶ So the jury wouldn’t hear about a shooting by [Chicago police officer Marco] Proano two years after he killed Niko Husband—a shooting that was captured on video. …. ¶ The rule about propensity evidence also applies to alleged victims, so the jury wouldn’t hear about Niko’s criminal record either.

Steve Bogira, “Can a lawsuit deliver justice after a fatal police shooting?”