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“Unanswered Cries,” Chicago Magazine

04.15.2008 by David Murray // 1 Comment

Before she
died in 2004, Kathleen Savio, the third wife of former Bolingbrook
police sergeant Drew Peterson, repeatedly warned authorities she would
be killed. Now her death has been reclassified a homicide. Why wasn’t
there a stronger response to her pleas for help?

 

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Categories // Human Politicians

“Bolingbrook—C’est Moi!” Chicago Magazine

10.01.2007 by David Murray // 11 Comments

He
weeps, he insults, he builds lavish projects, and Mayor Roger Claar
sees in his own journey—from chubby outsider to powerful Republican—a
parallel to the booming emergence of his town.

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Categories // Human Politicians

“Game Boy” Chicago Magazine

01.01.2007 by David Murray // 2 Comments

Tom Chambers is a young graduate of Harvard who recently scrapped
his job as an actuary to make a living playing online poker. But a new
law threatens his livelihood. Can he and others like him hold—or must
they fold?

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Categories // Sports Stories

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