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What We're Reading: Remembering The Officer Who Brought Down Gacy

CHICAGO — Happy Friday, Chicago! Here's what we're reading before we bust out to enjoy this rare warm weather.

Summer Eatin': Reporter Heather Cherone, who is desperate to get out of the house for some rest and relaxation, is reading the Reader's list of 20 places to eat outside. The list features two Far Northwest Side restaurant, a coup for an area of the city not known for good eats — or sidewalk cafes. The Reader's Gwynedd Stuart recommends unhinging your jaw and chowing down on Leadbelly's sky-high burgers in Portage Park and sampling the "high quality" hot dog stand fare at Ivy's Burgers, Hot Dogs and Fries in Edgebrook.

Public Good of Trains: The New Yorker is the lastest to find something revealing about American political life in the tragic Amtrak crash outside Philadelphia. Sam Cholke is reading Adam Gopnick's thinker about how difficult it is for Americans now to conceptualize something big created for a common good. Gopnick finds immediate backing for his argument in the politics of the Republicans, but going deeper sees the way urban and rural concerns continue to be divided and out of balance in American politics.

He Caught a Killer: Senior editor Andrew Herrmann is reading about the lead investigator in the John Wayne Gacy case, Joe Kozenczak, who died Wednesday. Sam Amirante, Gacy's attorney and the author of "Defending a Monster," told Daily Herald reporter Eric Peterson that Kozenczak's police work was "remarkable."

"I've always had a great deal of respect for Joe Kozenczak and that whole investigation team," Amirante said. "It was a tough, tough situation for all of us at that time. He was one of the good guys. He was a good cop." Gacy was suspected of killing 33 men and boys between 1972 and 1978. He was executed in 1994.

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