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, Politics, Feb 10, 2011
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Separate, Unequal, and Ignored
Racial segregation remains Chicago's most fundamental problem. Why isn't it an issue in the mayor's race?
- 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 2, 1992
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Child Abuse on the Brain
Child psychiatrist Bruce Perry believes that many kids diagnosed as being psychotic or hyperactive are actually suffering from posttraumatic stress disorder: they are shell-shocked veterans of the war against children.
- 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
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 26, 2012
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Concentrated poverty and homicide in Chicago
Segregation's lethal legacy marches on
- 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, Mudville, Aug 3, 2011
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Sticks and stones will break your bones, and so will 16-inch softball
- Blogs, Bleader, Sep 11, 2012
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Census stats likely to show highest poverty rate since 1965
When will the presidential candidates notice?
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 18, 2012
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Jail break at the Metropolitan Correctional Center
For the first time in 27 years there's been an escape from the jail in the South Loop
- 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 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, Dec 12, 1991
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Good Cop, Bad Cop
What is it about Detective Kriston Kato that makes murder suspects so eager to confess?
- 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, 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, 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, Feb 1, 1990
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Getting Through the 80s
Five less-than-prosperous Chicagoans answer the question of the Reagan decade: Are you better off now than you were ten years ago?
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 30, 2004
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The Victims of Victims
Anthony Wilson killed 19-month-old Semaj Rice, and he'll pay for it in prison. But who do you punish for generations of abuse and bureaucratic neglect?
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 28, 2004
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No Judge Left Behind
At election time lawyers' groups routinely point out whoch judges they think should get booted from the bench. And the voters keep ignoring them.
- News & Features, Mudville, May 26, 2011
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Lane Tech cruises to another city softball title behind the pitching and power of Kaleigh Ambrose.
- 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.
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