Special reports
Throwaway workers
2006: While fewer American workers are killed yearly on the job, that's not so for Latinos. An explosion of immigrant workers has created a throwaway workforce. Hungry for money, they take the most dangerous jobs. They rarely complain, and when hurt, rarely get help. |
Teens at the wheel
2006: A drivers license is an American right of passage, a doorway to greater freedom and adulthood. But for dozens of Chicago area teenagers each year, it is a journey that ends in death. |
Obama in Africa
August 2006: The last time he traveled to Africa, he wore a backpack and walked with anonymity. Fourteen years later, he arrives with a title, an entourage and such jubilation that some roads in his father's village have been freshly paved in his honor. |
Open wounds
August 2006: The enduring agony of a pit bull rampage. Memories of mauling and a boy's struggle to survive haunt a quiet community. |
A tank of gas, a world of trouble
July 29, 2006: Pulitzer Prize winner Paul Salopek traces gas sold at a Chicago-area station back to its origins. His safari reveals how America's oil addiction binds it to some of the most violent corners of the planet. |
Culture in crisis
July 2, 2006: Battered by Katrina, the cradle of America's artistic identity might never recover its vitality.
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Wrongly executed?
June 2006: One man went to Death Row proclaiming his innocence. Another bragged he was the real killer. In 1989, Texas may have executed an innocent man.
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Hamas
2006: For Hamas, politics and religion go hand in hand. But theology can be rigid, and democracy demands compromise.
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King of the ocean
April 2006: How Americans' growing appetite for sushi is helping to support the Rev. Moon's controversial church.
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Test of faith
March 2006: When the worst happens, how does a family go forward? After the April 2005 fire that killed 20-year-old Kelly Weimer, her parents and siblings began a wrenching journey.
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Internet blows CIA cover
March 2006: It's easy to track America's covert operatives. All you need to know is how to navigate the Internet.
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Crossing borders
December 2005: Never before have so many women moved across borders, traversing cultures and time zones to seek new lives and uncertain residence in foreign lands. |
Tsunami: Life in its wake
December 2005: Since the devastating tsunami of December 2004, Tribune correspondent Kim Barker has regularly visited a village in India to see how victims are rebuilding their town and their lives. |
Uninsured in America
2005: In the United States, nearly 46 million citizens have no health insurance and their ranks are growing. This Tribune series examines the uninsured and the problems they face. |
Stricken genius
December 2005: Before five strokes swept through his brain, leaving him unable to walk or talk, Alexei Sultanov attained international fame, winning the Van Cliburn piano competition at 19. |
The mercury menace
December 2005: Seafood for sale in area stores is contaminated with mercury, Tribune testing shows. Government and industry fail to protect consumers, even as Americans buy more fish than ever. |
Journey of Judge Lefkow
November 2005: Nine months ago, Judge Joan Lefkow discovered her husband and mother murdered in her home. Grief. Guilt. A devastated life. How would she go on? |
Innocence lost
November 2005: What happened to the children of Liberia's civil war? |
Mortgage fraud
November 2005: A white-collar crime wave is raking Chicago's poorest communities, robbing vulnerable families of their homes and draining billions of dollars from the U.S. economy. |
Pipeline to peril
October 2005: The journey of a dozen impoverished men from Nepal to Iraq reveals the exploitation underpinning the American war effort.
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High noon in the North Woods
September 2005: On the eve of Chai Vang's trial, the question isn't whether the Hmong immigrant killed 6 hunters on a crisp Wisconsin day, but why?
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Oreo, obesity & us
August 2005: The story of the Oreo is the story of how junk food became a centerpiece of the American diet. |
Oklahoma City
April 2005: A portrait of suffering and unfinished business left in the wake of the Oklahoma City bombing. |
The lost journal
March 2005: After a 60-year odyssey across three continents, a father's WWII chronicle finally reaches his children.
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Battle for the skies
2005: The Tribune examines Boeing's high-stakes effort to revolutionize air travel.
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Homicide in Chicago
2004: The Tribune examines the roots of violence and the web of anguish and fear that follows murder.
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 Utica: Wicked winds
December 5, 2004: How do you outrun the sky? On a fateful day in April, the people of Utica bore the brunt of the power of a tornado.
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Under the microscope
October 17, 2004:
A Tribune investigation of forensics shows the questionable science that can sometimes undermine justice.
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Millennium Park
2004: The city's biggest, boldest outdoor cultural project in more than a century |
Lewis and Clark
January 18, 2004: Tribune photographer Chris Walker revisits "this country's greatest adventure story."
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Prisoner of her past
November 30, 2003: Held captive by a mental disorder, a Holocaust survivor relives the terrors of her childhood.
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Justice derailed
1999-2003: Chicago Tribune coverage of the death penalty and the criminal justice system.
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A Squandered Heritage
January 2003: Developers and officials destroyed the treasures they vowed to preserve.
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