Technically speaking, there are a lot of children here. Here, being the Henry Horner Homes, the Chicago Housing Authority’s public housing project where the majority of Alex Kotlowitz’s non-fiction book “There Are No Children Here” takes place. In Henry Horner, there are babies, toddlers and teen...
This was a great listen. From Manny's to Edna's to Betty Loren-Maltese ad the disaster that Cicero has always been. Luckily the Bud Billiken Parade went better in the year of this book than it did this year (there were killings, of course). And plaudits to his saluting Nelson Algren's great book,...
It didn’t take much, given all that was found down there, to make that leap of imagination. When Gwen Anderson, the newly appointed housing manager of Horner who had been entrusted to help turn the troubled complex around, ventured into the basements of Horner’s high-rises, she vomited. On April ...
Roughly forty thousand cases are heard here each year, an average of 153 a day. The rush of humanity is staggering. The central bond court, room 101, begins proceedings at one o’clock every afternoon, and it is so backed up with the newly arrested that defendants now appear on video from lockup i...