0:00 Matt’s profile of the artist Rahmaan Statik

11:26 Chicago’s “Great Unraveling” 

20:41 Is Chicago slouching toward dystopia? 

29:50 How will the near-end of cash bail affect crime in Chicago?

33:24 The responsibilities of teachers, parents, and the police

46:59 A snapshot of crime in Chicago

52:26 Matt runs the numbers on Illinois’s out-of-wedlock births

1:02:44 Lori Lightfoot’s prospects for reelection

Links and Readings

Matt’s book, What Next, Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son

Wirepoints

Matt’s profile with artist Rahmaan Barnes

Rahmaan Barnes’s art

University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Becoming a Man program

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