Among the most self-assured and sharply crafted debuts in recent years, Calumet City detonates a Molotov cocktail of character-driven suspense and ghetto-Chicago intrigue. Meet Patti Black, the most decorated cop in Chicago. On her ghetto beat, Patti Black redefines the word badass. But her steel...
Hispanic—Puerto Rican this paper reported—but he was Mexican. Officer Terry Rourke shot and killed him in an alley just above the river at Halsted. Terry Rourke had a 30-year history of violent responses. The Mexican boy had none. He was thirteen, deaf and dumb. His parents protested; the neighbo...