The View From The Ground

Since 2001, as the South State Street “corridor” of high-rise public housing has been razed as part of the City of Chicago’s “Plan for Transformation,” I have sought to document physical conditions, monitor the relocation process, and report on patterns of police abuse.

Some of this reporting has appeared in major media. In 2002, I wrote the Diary feature for the online magazine Slate—an assignment that involved filing stories for five consecutive days. And I have been a regular contributor to the program "Eight Forty-Eight" on Chicago Public Radio. (In 2003, Steve Edwards of “Eight Forty-Eight” and I were awarded the Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in the category of “in-depth reporting” for radio by the Chicago chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists for our portrait of a former drug dealer.)

The primary vehicle for my reporting, though, has been The View From The Ground, the web publication Patricia Evans, David Eads and I created in 2001. Daniel Tucker of AREA did an interview with me in 2005 about the history of The View. And in 2003 the National Public Radio program "On The Media" aired a story about the role I have played for other journalists by virtue of being "on the ground."

Kicking The Pigeon

The State Street Coverage Initiative

Denial of Access to Access Denied

One Strike

Off The Lease

 

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