Warning: Getting busted may result in extrajudicial punishment. Danielle Gordon writes in the Chicago Reporter (March): “Between January 1990 and September 1998, 177 African Americans, 80 whites and one Asian American died in police custody or jail in Cook County.” Most died of natural causes, though there were 78 homicides and suicides, and “in 14 incidents, death was related to the victims being restrained by police.”
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Must have been crowded down there. In 1973 Wicker Park was different, writes Rob Kaiser in the preview issue of Urban Explorer. “There were armed robberies, homicides and sexual predators hiding under the El platform.”
“When Second Harvest was founded, the dedicated people that began the effort felt their work would be temporary,” according to “Second Harvest Update” (Winter). “In 1979, most of the volunteers who sorted cans at the food bank or served meals at the kitchens assumed that they wouldn’t be needed after the economy improved. Now, twenty years later, it is clear that this is not the case. Since the economic expansion started in 1993 and unemployment rates began to plummet, the number of Americans that live at or below the federal poverty threshold has barely dropped by one percentage point…between 1993 and 1997.”
