Happy Sunday.
It’s a bit of a slow news day here, besides all the fanfare being made on the occasion of
Michael Jeffrey Jordan turning 50 years old
today. Hoy’s own
,
and
are at the
to cover the weekend festivities.
Here in Chicago, we’ve been treated to a pair of in-depth looks at crime rings.
breaks down the
social architecture of a sex trafficking operation
in Little Village. Drawing on
and shoe-leather reporting, Greg poses the disturbing question of how such an operation could have sprung up in a quiet and comparatively crime-free neighborhood.
Fans of Chicago Reader stalwart
won’t be disappointed with his latest cover story,
. In the piece he explains how “Dana Bostic’s gang-affiliated west-side drug organization employed dozens of residents, served thousands of customers, established ties with Mexican drug cartels, and relied on violence to stay in business.”
It is worth nothing that in both cases the specific criminal enterprise has been stopped, but the problem continues.
Both stories are worth reading when you’re not celebrating MJ’s birthday.
