How Can Data Inform Violence Prevention Efforts in Chicago? Quinn Myers
Andrew Papachristos, Sociologist at Northwestern says that Chicago’s pattern of violence is “decidedly not random”. Papachristos talks more in his Firsthand talk on wttw’s website, and in the WTTW news segment above with Franklin Cosey-Gay, executive director of the Chicago Center for Youth Violence Prevention at the University of Chicago.
The Firsthand talks are a part of WTTW’s documentary project Firsthand which covers Chicago’s violence from multiple perspectives and interests.
Growing up in Beverly, we were always warned about the propensity for neighboring township Oak Lawn’s police to ticket heavily. Turns out, not much has changed. This is a local instance in what has become a well-known bit of corporate and government nickle and diming in America.
For Chicago Magazine, Mari Cohen reports on the Cook County Plan To better integrate Metra, CTA am Pace Transit and some of its challenges.
The Chicago Teachers Union has begun voting on the contract it negotiated during its strike.
Last week, I covered the Metropolitan Water Reclamation Districts budget session last week for City Bureau and produced this twitter thread. It was, to me, a dizzying experience just trying to stay focused on the myriad presentations of every department of this huge agency, let alone the persistent and sandgrain level of detail questions from commissioners like Debra Shore.
-Tim Hogan