Between 2008 and 2022, judges found the testimony of 40 law enforcement officers in Cook County to be incredible or unbelievable, but few officers faced significant repercussions.
Author Archives: Max Blaisdell
Posted inArts & Culture
Wendell Smith’s legacy
For the first time in more than 50 years, Chicago’s avid sports fandom can refamiliarize themselves with the insightful and generous writings of Wendell Smith, a pioneering sports journalist who served as the first Black president of the Chicago Press Club, in The Wendell Smith Reader, edited by Michael Scott Pifer. Smith is most known […]
Posted inBook Review
In praise of pickup basketball
“We go to the playground in search of our fathers. We didn’t find them but we found a game and the game served as a daddy of sorts,” the novelist John Edgar Wideman wrote in his book Hoop Roots. This quote is a fitting epigraph for Thomas Beller’s Lost in the Game: A Book about […]
Posted inNews & Politics
Mental health on the ballot
Voters in three wards will vote on a referendum that would send mental health workers to crises instead of cops.