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ProPublica and Nashville Public Radio dropped a bombshell description about how Rutherford County, Tenn., treats its Black children. That the main perpetrators of the violence against children under color of law appear to have a Christianist view of the world does not surprise me in the least: In Rutherford County, a juvenile court judge had been directing police on what she called “our process” for arresting children, and she appointed the jailer, who employed a “filter system” to determine which...

Welcome to stop #59 on the Brews and Choos project. Brewery: District Brew Yards., 417 N. Ashland Ave., ChicagoTrain line: CTA Pink and Green Lines, Ashland Time from Chicago: 6 minutesDistance from station: 400 m District Brew Yards is just up the road from All Rise Brewing, but that road is Ashland Avenue, you have to go under a dark and scary railroad bridge to get from one to the other, and the Fulton Industrial District doesn't inspire feelings of warmth and happiness at night. I recommend you go...

And yes, Cassie posed naked for this one:

Welcome to stop #58 on the Brews and Choos project. Brewery: All Rise Brewing Co., 235 N. Ashland Ave., ChicagoTrain line: CTA Pink and Green Lines, Ashland Time from Chicago: 6 minutesDistance from station: 200 m In terms of breweries and distilleries accessible from one Metra station, mine (Ravenswood) tops the list. But the single densest train station of any kind is actually Ashland on the CTA Pink and Green lines. Two stops from Clinton, which is close to both Ogilvie and Union Station, and three...

Today marks the 150th anniversary of the Great Chicago Fire, which burned for two days and left 100,000 people homeless. But only for a short time; by 1874, when the city had a second big fire, our population had already grown by about that number. Flash forward to now: Time Out rated Chicago's Andersonville neighborhood second-coolest in the world, after Nørrebro, Copenhagen, and beating out Leith in Edinburgh; Chelsea in New York City; and Dublin 8, just to name three. A pre-pandemic article from the...

So many things this morning, including a report not yet up on WBEZ's website about the last Sears store in Chicago. (I'll find it tomorrow.) Jennifer Rubin advises XPOTUS "critics and democracy lovers" to leave the Republican Party. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) completely caved against a unified Democratic Party and will vote to extend the (probably-unconstitutional) debt limit another three months. An abolitionist's house from 1869 may get landmark approval today from the Commission on...