Chicago Torture

Studs' Last Stand

Curtis Black | Posted 12.05.2008 | Chicago


Curtis Black

Studs Terkel spent his life giving voice to the concerns of the voiceless, and it's a mark of his consistency that in his final days he stood up for men who were denied fair trials decades ago.

Jon Burge, The Olympics and Torture in Chicago

Monroe Anderson | Posted 09.19.2008 | Chicago


Monroe Anderson

In a quixotic quest for justice, a civil rights group is out to expose America's third-largest city as, according to an attorney, "the torture capital of the world."