CHICAGO — Here's what we're reading today.
BuzzFeed Revisits Uptown Commune: Last year, Jaime Prater released "No Place to Call Home," a film that alleges that dozens of former Jesus People along with Prater suffered sexual abuse as children at the commune between 1974 and 1998. Friday, BuzzFeed's Jesse Hyde revisited the film and went in-depth with Prater about the toll it had on him.
Mayor Emanuel's Flawed Logic? Mayor Rahm Emanuel finally "broke his silence" in regards to the ongoing hunger strike by Dyett High School activists, saying it doesn't make sense to open Dyett when there are underutilized schools in the area, according to Chicago Reader's Ben Joravsky. While Emanuel's point makes sense in an ideal world, Joravsky argues, his past decisions contradict that point. He green-lit an $18 million expansion at Lincoln Elementary School and an expansion at Coonley School, both of which are located near underutilized or vacant schools.
Wheaton Rebel: Wes Craven, the creator of the Nightmare on Elm Street movie franchise who died Sunday of brain cancer, was a graduate of the west suburban Evangelical Christian Wheaton College. It had its moments, Craven told the Tribune in 1997. The school suspended publication of its literary magazine after it published two stories by Craven: one about a pregnant teenager and the other about an interracial couple. "We stretched our limits," Craven said. Still, he recalled that when he was a senior he came down with a disease that paralyzed him from the chest down and many people from the college came to visit. "Their thoughts and prayers represented the best side of Christianity. I'll never forget that side of Wheaton College. Never," he said.
Chicago River Will Probably Teem with Poop Until 2029: Until the $3 billion Deep Tunnel project is fully functional, estimated to be in 2029, fans of using the Chicago River for recreation should expect to continue encountering what one rower described as, "a crust of feces on the water after it rains." A front page Tribune report focused on the high levels of fecal bacteria found in several areas of the Chicago River, which is being touted by Mayor Emanuel as an amenity and attraction. Read all about it here (but not during lunch).
Feeling hangry? Grab something snackable: When it's 2 p.m. and all you've had to eat is, um, coffee and more coffee, you're probably feeling pretty hungry and maybe even a tad grouchy. Reporter Ariel Cheung is one of many who refer to that particular sensation as being "hangry," which is partially why she's fangirling all over the latest Oxford Dictionary update.
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