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Steve Bogira

Crime

Can a Lawsuit Deliver Justice After a Fatal Police Shooting?

A civil trial of Officer Marco Proano, who shot Niko Husband in 2011, finds him not guilty. By accident.

Steve Bogira Chicago Reader Feb 2016 50min Permalink

Crime

They Came in Through the Bathroom Mirror

A Chicago housing project resident reports intruders breaking into her apartment through a medicine cabinet. Days later, she’s found dead.

Steve Bogira Chicago Reader Sep 1987 40min Permalink

Crime

The Unpunished Killing of Joe Henson

Forty years ago, a man was killed in Chicago because he was black. The daughter he never met is still searching for clues about his death.

  1. Part One

  2. Part Two

Steve Bogira Chicago Reader Mar 2012 45min Permalink

Crime

A Convict's Odyssey

When he was 16, Mark Clements talked his way into four life sentences. Twenty-eight years later, he talked his way out.

Steve Bogira Chicago Reader May 2011 30min Permalink

Separate, Unequal, and Ignored

On the enduring racial segregation in Chicago and why it’s an issue no mayoral candidate is willing to touch.

Steve Bogira Chicago Reader Feb 2011 Permalink