Technically speaking, there are a lot of children here. Here, being the Henry Horner Homes, the Chicago Housing Authority’s public housing project where the majority of Alex Kotlowitz’s non-fiction book “There Are No Children Here” takes place. In Henry Horner, there are babies, toddlers and teen...
This was a great listen. From Manny's to Edna's to Betty Loren-Maltese ad the disaster that Cicero has always been. Luckily the Bud Billiken Parade went better in the year of this book than it did this year (there were killings, of course). And plaudits to his saluting Nelson Algren's great book,...