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On her ChicagoNow blog One Story Up (my favorite in the nascent CN network), Megan Cottrell has the Dickensianly* tragic story of three orphans who are about to be booted out of their recently deceased mother’s subsidized apartment, even though there’s a legal and commonsensical basis for them to stay. Read it, it’s exemplary activist journalism.
Speaking of ChicagoNow: journalists and freelancers should really be reading Chicago Bar-tender. It’s a convenient roundup of interesting lawsuits, and I would guess that digging into some of the more intriguing ones (like the 93-year-old pastor trying to take over a church) could result in the kind of tremendously awesome legal feature stories that Grant Pick (more; yet more; an amazing one; see how this works?) and Neal Pollack did for the Reader.
