TimeOut Chicago features Logan Square Crime Blotter

chicago.timeout.com - 12 weeks ago - 430 views

For the past nine months, residents of Avondale and Logan Square have been reading about crime in their ’hoods as it happens: a gang disturbance on Drake Avenue at 12:33am, a person with a gun at 2400 North Monticello Avenue at 4:37pm. There’s even some news of the weird, like a report at 4:53pm of a drunk stumbling down Milwaukee Avenue asking passersby to pay $5 to see him eat a live goldfish.

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by lanarama 12 weeks 3 days ago

Hey everybody. Let's vote this sucker up to show support for one of our very own being featured in TimeOut. Congrats, Timmy.

Someone should post the original article to some other sites, too. Which would be good ones?

by BradFlora 12 weeks 3 days ago

On it! Timmy's a force of nature. He deserves all the attention.

by Koji 12 weeks 3 days ago

Great job, Timmy!

by Anna Tarkov 12 weeks 3 days ago

So happy that Timmy is getting this moment in the spotlight! He sets a wonderful example that other kids his age should follow. It's never too early to make a difference in your community.

by Logan Square Ex... 12 weeks 3 days ago

Congrats indeed.

by John Kristoff 11 weeks 4 days ago

Just found this on a blog post called Top 10 Lies Newspaper Execs are Telling Themselves.

Check out #7, where Timmy gets more love.

Lie #7: No one will ever cover crime/health/city hall the way we do

Sure they will.

Most prolific crime blogger in Chicago is a 16-year-old kid with a police scanner.

Here’s a horrible little Catch 22 given Lie #6: As more journalists are laid-off, the more potential expert bloggers there are and the greater the potential for small, focused local news sites to flourish using former newspaper journalists as freelancers and editors. The more cuts made, the more newspapers are guaranteeing their own demise.