What's really the most dangerous American city? The way crimes are currently counted in the US can easily confuse and mislead.
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Taking this step may improve the quality of life for vulnerable people and reduce the amount of air conditioning they use, making their neighborhoods less prone to power outages.
Anish Kapoor made “Cloud Gate”, a giant bean-shaped mirror in Chicago. Visitors play with the light in the city and its surroundings, where our future lays.
How to move beyond the warm words about tackling urban heat islands to doing something about them.
Three innovative projects set to be completed this year are geared toward strengthening communities that have been left out of the economic recovery.
Does 21st century corporate logic contain the seeds of its own destruction?
We asked five architecture experts to name one building or structure they wish had been preserved, but couldn't resist the tides of decay, development and discrimination.
Giving labor unions a financial stake in a company such as a newspaper can offer unique advantages that could benefit employees, society and the bottom line.
The newspaper's new owners harken back to a tradition of labor-led media in the early part of the 20th century, which represented a bulwark against corporate power.
When the young Wright moved to Chicago to work for the architect Joseph Silsbee, he was introduced to Japanese prints. It changed his career, and very possibly the course of American architecture.
Yelp and Twitter can help us spot food poisoning outbreaks quickly. But a new study shows the data favor some communities over others.
Crime data reflect only what crimes are identified by the police – not all the crimes that occur. So decisions based on crime data are necessarily biased and incompletely informed.
The DOJ has found excessive use of force in the Baltimore, Ferguson and Chicago police departments. Could a solution be found by seeing the police as victims of violence as well?
Could a similar coalition emerge today?
Data centers are taking over the factories where workers once processed checks, baked bread and printed Bibles. What will the rise of the information-based economy mean for American cities?
No team in sports has inspired better literature than the hapless Chicago Cubs. The oeuvre includes a little-known tale by W.P. Kinsella: 'The Last Pennant Before Armageddon.'
They're a global phenomenon – but gangs are so varied that they barely merit the same name.
RNC protests in Cleveland have been peaceful, but are they effective? A historian explains what happened at the DNC in 1968 and why activists may want to reconsider their tactics.
Islam is often presented as an unchanging monolith. But as the emergence of 'third spaces' outside home and mosque shows, the American Muslim community exemplifies the diversity of American society.
Reform of police departments must include a reexamination of why cops and civilians come in contact so frequently in the first place.
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Professor of the Practice and Faculty Director of the Master's in Applied Intelligence, Georgetown University
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Professor Emeritus of Management Institute for Work and Employment Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Professor of Political Science, DePaul University
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, Northwestern University
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Professor in American Politics, University of Chicago
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Kevin D. Murphy is a Friend of The Conversation.
Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities and Professor and Chair of History of Art, Vanderbilt University
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Associate Professor, Department of Art and Design, University of Delaware
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Associate Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Professor of Journalism, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis
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Lecturer in Criminology/Sociology, University of Glasgow
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Assistant Professor of Law, Georgia State University
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Vice Chancellor's Research Fellow, Edinburgh Napier University
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Research Assistant Professor, University of Notre Dame
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Assistant Professor, Department of Religious Studies , Case Western Reserve University
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Professor of History, University of Kansas
