- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 11, 2011
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Preckwinkle withdraws her plea on jury parking
Cook County Board president Toni Preckwinkle seems confused about jurors.
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 8, 2011
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Pot busts of the week
- Blogs, Bleader, Jul 6, 2011
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Wiretaps are increasing
Law enforcement agencies are using wiretaps more than ever, mostly for drug investigations.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 4, 2010
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Wilding
Not all wild men worked in a circus
- Blogs, Bleader, Jun 11, 2010
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Reasonable Doubt
Vim versus vice in Victorian Wisconsin
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 16, 2010
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The Family That Thieves Together, Grieves Together
Margaret White saw her opportunities and she took 'em
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 12, 2010
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Get Off My Lawn!
Acid reflex, base behavior
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 5, 2010
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Bovine Intervention
Once the City in a Garden was a locavore's utopia, but that had its problems too
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 4, 2010
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Heels On Wheels
Probing the Darwinian origins of Chicago's savage traffic culture
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 3, 2010
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The Farmer in the Docket
Baby farms: places even less wholesome than puppy farms
- Blogs, Bleader, Feb 1, 2010
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Restraint of Trade
"We got a nice quiet beach community here, Capone, and I aim to keep it nice and quiet."
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 8, 2010
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Ah Yes, the Old Story. . .
Those old-fashioned con games could be devilishly complicated
- Blogs, Bleader, Jan 7, 2010
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Whipping Boys
Everybody loved to hate a wife beater
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 29, 2009
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The Calumet River Amazon
No woman is an island, but Lilian Stevens came close
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 21, 2009
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"You can't get a jury to convict a good-looking woman"
Gender and justice in Progressive-Era Chicago
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 17, 2009
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Murder, Inc.
There were a million ways to die in the Windy City.
- Blogs, Bleader, Dec 16, 2009
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"Mishap Bares Vampire Auto Death Puzzle"
In the inaugural post from our new blog, Bad News From the Past: Chicago's notoriously Darwinian traffic culture goes back to the dawn of the automobile.
- Blogs, Bleader, Nov 26, 2007
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To serve and protect and be accountable
Deadly force and an Excel spreadsheet.
- Blogs, Bleader, Aug 8, 2006
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Linkin' & thinkin'
Downtowners grow, Sullivan ages, Bears lose, laundry greens, feds entrap, and the conservative-libertarian liplock loosens
