True Stories of False Confessions
In most police and courtroom dramas, crimes are solved as soon as a character confesses. However, as a new book shows, a confession is sometimes only the beginning of the real story.
In most police and courtroom dramas, crimes are solved as soon as a character confesses. However, as a new book shows, a confession is sometimes only the beginning of the real story.
The Daily Northwestern | Lauren Kelleher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago
According to acclaimed author Alex Kotlowitz, an unlikely tool - public health - can be used to help combat violence in Chicago's impoverished neighbo...
David Murray | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago
Our troubles had begun when my wife Kirsten took the job teaching art, K-8, at a West Side elementary school. Then came the informal adoptions.
Victoria Lautman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago
It's Chicago's turn to inspire an issue of Granta, the esteemed British literary journal that seems to instantly confer upon the subscriber a mantle of elevated intellect, or at least the appearance of it. I talked about the issue with editor John Freeman.
AARP | Alex Kotlowitz | Posted 01.14.2009 | Chicago
Shortly before his death in October at age 96, I visited my dear friend Studs Terkel. His crackling voice was thinner than it used to be, and he didn'...
David Murray | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago
I could have gone either way, and I think that when I arrived in Chicago, fresh out of college in 1992 I was neither liberal nor conservative. But then . . .
John Maki | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago