Rescued From Obscurity: 11,439 Stories of Life and Death in Chicago
Title: Rescued From Obscurity: 11,439 Stories of Life and Death in Chicago Year: 2007 Publisher: The Chicago Tribune Author: David Thigpen Issue: January 21, 2007 Description: For decades the large leather-trimmed volumes sat in the recesses of the archives of the Chicago Police Department, with nary a visitor. Then in the summer of 1998, researcher […]
The Record Keepers
Title: The Record Keepers Year: 2006 Author: Leigh Buchanan Bienen Publisher: TriQuarterly Issue: Issue 124, Intro, pp. 9-44 Description: Introductory essay to a group of papers presented at a conference based on the Chicago Historical Homicide Project database. I would not be here, now, sweating in the August humidity of 2005 writing this, with an […]