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News & Features, Feature, May 10, 2012
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Scratch and stitch

The well-tailored line between hip-hop artists and the streetwear companies hustling to promote them
- by Leor Galil
- Tags: Feature, Chicago hates you, Fake Shore Drive, streetwear, apparel, snapback, Chicago rap, Mishka, City of Win, BBU, ShowYouSuck, Really Doe, Chief Keef, Slideshow, Audio

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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."
- by Steve Bogira
- Tags: Feature, Kelvin Wallace, heroin, drug abuse, drug addiction, drug arrests, It's About Change, veteran's court, Larry Axelrood, poverty, substance abuse, drug dealing, recovery home, recovering addicts, Deer Rehabilitation Services, 12-step meetings, U.S. military, Lemmon 714, crack, cocaine, Westside Health Authority, Audio

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News & Features, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Addicted to guns

Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- by Mick Dumke
- Tags: Feature, guns, gun violence, The Crime Report, violence interrupters, Marilyn Pitchford, shootings, gun violence, violence, CeaseFire, Sheldon Smith, ex-offenders, Safer Foundation, Tony Wade, conflicts, conflict resolution, Greater Grand Crossing, South Side, neighborhoods, Hales Franciscan High School, Kennedy-King College, U.S. attorney, Jack Tweedle, ATF, U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, social services, Project Safe Neighborhoods, City Colleges, 911, Barack Obama's house, Anita Alvarez, City Council, Cook County state's attorney, roots of violence, poverty, Michael Chandler, 24th Ward, gang members, Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, Charlie Beck, Connie Rice, Los Angeles Office of Gang Reduction and Youth Develop, U.S. Department of Justice, Phil Cline, murder, race, Rahm Emanuel, CPD, Chicago Police Department, policing, Violence Reduction Strategy, Gary McCarthy, police overtime, Englewood, Hadiya Pendleton, West Humboldt Park, Frederick Seaton, interruption, gun laws, Michael Davis, Turkey Chop, restaurants, Napoleon English, liquor stores, prison, crime, punishment, Chicago Tribune, Richard M. Daley, George Mason University, Christopher Koper, basketball, high school basketball, marijuana, drinking, drug dealing, Gangster Disciples, gangs, Evans Mob, Vice Lords, drug territory, gang territory, addiction, Audio

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News & Features, Savage Love, Sep 4, 2008
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Savage Love
- by Dan Savage
- Tags: Savage Love, Audio

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Besieged

West Humboldt is one of America's biggest open-air drug markets. What does that mean for its residents?

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His Father's Honor

Why the son of a shamed former Illinois governor is so interested in the Supreme Court's review of the "honest services" law

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Trying to make separate equal

Having failed at desegregation, Chicago has tried instead to provide quality education in poor, racially isolated schools. That hasn’t worked either.

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The well-tailored line between hip-hop artists and the streetwear companies hustling to promote them

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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."

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Addicted to guns

Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?

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