On Monday, the fifth and final young man to be sentenced in the brutal killing of high school student Derrion Albert was sentenced to 32 years in prison. Two years ago, the beating death of Albert, filmed on a cell phone and seen around the world, drew national and international attention to the problem of [...]
Mission: Chicago
August 24, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Jerusalem. Detroit. Belfast. These are the major cities I visited during my summer travels—and there were plenty of smaller and equally important cities and towns in between. One of my takeaways from this summer of travel is a desire to know as much (and more) about Chicago as I learned about these other cities and [...]
