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The Glenn Show

Matt Rosenberg – Chicago's Drift Toward Dystopia

The Glenn Show

Glenn Loury

Politics, News, Society & Culture

4.82.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 October 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

0:00 Matt’s profile of the artist Rahmaan Statik

11:26 Chicago’s “Great Unraveling”

20:41 Is Chicago slouching toward dystopia?

29:50 How will the near-end of cash bail affect crime in Chicago?

33:24 The responsibilities of teachers, parents, and the police

46:59 A snapshot of crime in Chicago

52:26 Matt runs the numbers on Illinois’s out-of-wedlock births

1:02:44 Lori Lightfoot’s prospects for reelection

Links and Readings

Matt’s book, What Next, Chicago?: Notes of a Pissed-Off Native Son

Wirepoints

Matt’s profile with artist Rahmaan Barnes

Rahmaan Barnes’s art

University of Chicago Crime Lab’s Becoming a Man program



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0:00.0

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0:42.4

Thank you.

0:43.4

Hello Matt, how are you?

0:48.4

Hi, Glenn Good to be with you again.

0:52.2

I am indeed Glenn, Glendlaury, this is the Glend Show sponsored by the Manhattan Institute

0:57.6

for Policy Research in New York City.

0:59.6

I'm a professor at Brown University and I'm with Matt Rosenberg who is a veteran journalist.

1:05.6

Chicago is his beat, he's the author of the amazing book, Very Provocative and Insisive

1:12.6

and thoughtful and passionate book.

1:15.6

What next Chicago notes of a pistol of native son?

1:18.6

I've interviewed him at the podcast at the Glend Show previously about the book.

1:23.6

Matt is just a wash and all kinds of shoe leather reporting insight from walking around the

1:31.6

streets of the city, talking to people and whatnot.

1:34.6

In the old school, I don't know Mike Royco, is that with that be somebody that you would

1:39.6

compare yourself to that kind of veteran old school journalist kind of way?

1:46.6

And you know, Chicago is my hometown, so welcome Matt.

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