Introducing The City
Locked Up Abroad
English - November 05, 2018 11:10 - 5 minutes - ★★★★ - 1.5K ratingsSociety & Culture exhibit c crime drugs abroad vacation locked jim clemente overseas riveting prison Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
The City tells true stories of how power works in urban America. Season 1 begins in Chicago, 1990.
After years of disinvestment, highways are rebuilt, old buildings demolished, and new skyscrapers erected. All that rubble has to go somewhere, and its destination isn’t a landfill—it’s a pair of vacant lots in a predominately black, working-class neighborhood called North Lawndale. The man behind this operation is a white guy sporting a Cosby sweater and underworld connections. What follows is a tour de force through Chicago’s underbelly: Aldermen get indicted. An FBI investigation goes awry. A community’s resilience is tested—all unfolding under the specter of racism in America.
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