Steve Bogira
Bio:
I'm a senior writer for the Chicago Reader, and I write mostly about race and poverty. I'm also the author of Courtroom 302, a book about the nation's busiest felony courthouse, here in Chicago. It won the Midland Authors nonfiction award for 2005 and was a finalist for the LA Times current interest award. My work has been aided by an Alicia Patterson fellowship and a Kaiser media fellowship in health. I have an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Albion College. I'm a proud product of Chicago's south side and the Ridge Country Club caddie yard, where my gambling and cussing earned me a Chick Evans scholarship to Northwestern.
I'm a senior writer for the Chicago Reader, and I write mostly about race and poverty. I'm also the author of Courtroom 302, a book about the nation's busiest felony courthouse, here in Chicago. It won the Midland Authors nonfiction award for 2005 and was a finalist for the LA Times current interest award. My work has been aided by an Alicia Patterson fellowship and a Kaiser media fellowship in health. I have an honorary doctorate in humane letters from Albion College. I'm a proud product of Chicago's south side and the Ridge Country Club caddie yard, where my gambling and cussing earned me a Chick Evans scholarship to Northwestern.
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 17, 2012
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Two students, two high schools, two divergent paths to college
Jasmeen Wellere grew up on the south side, Hayley Himmelman on the North Shore. Both flourished in their classes, but they've faced very different challenges—and been afforded very different opportunities
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 22, 2012
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Deadly poverty
Homicide is just one of many killers plaguing Chicago's poor black neighborhoods
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 25, 2012
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Shorty's comeback
Kelvin Wallace has been given one more chance to prevail over the heroin addiction he's struggled with for decades. "A whole lot is riding on me getting this right."
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 6, 2012
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The color of his skin
A missing gun, a wavering prosecution, and decades of regret.
Part 2 of 2.
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 29, 2012
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The color of his skin
Joe Henson was killed because he was black. Forty years later, the daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death. Part 1 of 2.
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 15, 2011
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Money talks, twice
Mayor Emanuel's political action committee gives the rich a second chance to please him
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 13, 2011
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'The conscience of Chicago journalism'
Michael Miner, the Reader's rock, has been in these pages since day one
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 13, 2011
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Revisiting John Conroy's journalistic odyssey into police torture
Twenty-one years ago, 'House of Screams' launched a decade of stories that ended with the imprisonment of police lieutenant Jon Burge
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 8, 2011
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The price of intolerance, part 2
Forty years after racial tensions escalated to tragedy in a south-side neighborhood, Duffie Clark maintains that someone else pulled the trigger.
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 1, 2011
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The price of intolerance, part 1
Racial tensions on Chicago's south side had been simmering for years when, on September 1, 1971, the animosity boiled over—forever altering the lives of two men.
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 11, 2011
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Father, husband, schizophrenic
Schizophrenia afflicts three times as many blacks as whites. David Mailey is among its victims, but he’s persevering.
- News & Features, Feature, May 5, 2011
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A Convict's Odyssey
When he was 16, Mark Clements talked his way into four life sentences. Twenty-eight years later, he talked his way out.
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 3, 2009
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Billy Pierce: Almost Perfect
The difference between a Mark Buehrle and a Billy Pierce? One out.
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 19, 2006
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Who Killed Ryan Harris?
When Floyd Durr pled guilty in April to the sexual assault and murder of 11-year-old Ryan Harris, the book finally seemed closed on one of the most notorious criminal cases here in decades. But much remains uncertain. Including who killed Ryan.
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 21, 2006
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Chicago 101: Law & Order
Here’s what happens when you get arrested in Chicago.
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 21, 2006
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Chicago 101: Law & Order
Here’s what happens when you get arrested in Chicago.
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 24, 2005
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Weird Justice
Gang enforcer James "Bo Diddley" Williams had already done his time for shooting Lucky Wade. Then Wade died and he found himself on trial for murder.
- News & Features, Feature, May 12, 2005
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A Jury of Whose Peers?
Minority defendants, especially men, rarely see themselves reflected in the juries that try them. A proposed law could be the first step towards changing that in Illinois.
- News & Features, Feature, Mar 24, 2005
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Out of the Courtroom and Into the Street
Judge Daniel Locallo takes an accused burglar on a field trip.
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 28, 2004
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