Good old days? Not for killings—Homicide rate for 1930 nearly same as last year’s
Title: Good old days? Not for killings—Homicide rate for 1930 nearly same as last year’s Year: 2004 Publisher: The Chicago Sun-Times Author: Frank Main Issue: June 8, 2004 Description: The Chicago Sun-Times article announcing the launch of the Homicide in Chicago 1870-1930 website, which received ~70k visits the weekend of its launch. What is perhaps […]
Crime Chicago Style
Title: Crime Chicago Style Year: 2007 Publisher: The Chicago Tribune Author: Charles M. Madigan and Tribune Staff Writer Issue: August 19, 1998 Description: After decades in the recesses of the of the Chicago Police Department at at 11th and State, the handwritten record of 11,000 Chicago murders from 1870-1930 were turned over to the Illinois […]
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 […]
Leigh Bienen and the Lookingglass Theatre
Title: Leigh Bienen and the Lookingglass Theatre Year: 2017 Publisher: Lookingglass Theatre Issue: N/A Description: Her work has been generously supported by The Joyce Foundation, The MacArthur Foundation, The McCormick Tribune Foundation, and Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law. In 2009 she published an empirical study of the cost of capital punishment in Illinois which played […]
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 […]