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Alex Kotlowitz

True Stories of False Confessions

John Maki | Posted 10.19.2009 | Chicago

Read More: False Confessions, Chris Ochoa, Center on Wrongful Convictions, Rob Warden, Beverly Monroe, Steve Drizin, Criminal Justice Reform, Dna Testing, John Grisham, Alex Kotlowitz, Chicago News
John Maki

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.

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Public Health Key To Reducing Urban Violence: Kotlowitz

The Daily Northwestern | Lauren Kelleher | Posted 09.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Public Health, Chicago Violence, Alex Kotlowitz, Ceasefire, Chicago Gang Violence, Gang Violence, Chicago News

According to acclaimed author Alex Kotlowitz, an unlikely tool - public health - can be used to help combat violence in Chicago's impoverished neighbo...

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The Chicago Public School Teacher's Husband

David Murray | Posted 11.22.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Henry Horner Homes, Lake Street El, Poverty, Chicago Public Schools, There Are No Children Here, Alex Kotlowitz, Oak Park, Teacher, Education, Education Reform, Public Schools, Inner City, Charter Schools, Arne Duncan, Chicago News
David Murray

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.

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Hello Britain, Meet Chicago: Granta Takes a Toddlin' Town Tour

Victoria Lautman | Posted 10.18.2009 | Chicago

Read More: John Freeman, Publishing, Chicago, Aleksandar Hemon, Alex Kotlowitz, Chris Ware, Sandra Cisneros, Barack Obama, Granta, Granta Chicago Issue, Granta Chicago, Chicago News
Victoria Lautman

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.

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Studs Terkel's Final Face-To-Face Interview: 'Hope Dies Last'

AARP | Alex Kotlowitz | Posted 01.14.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Studs Terkel Death, Studs Terkel Final Interview, Studs Terkel Interviews, Studs, Studs Terkel Interview, Studs Terkel, Alex Kotlowitz, Studs Terkel Last Interview, Studs Terkel Hope Dies Last, Chicago News

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'...

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How Chicago Made a Liberal of Me

David Murray | Posted 10.18.2008 | Chicago

Read More: Becoming a Democrat, Henry Horner Homes, Alex Kotlowitz, Democratic Chicago, Liberalism, Studs Terkel, Becoming a Liberal, Chicago News
David Murray

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 . . .

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