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II-"Dirty Work" - George Getschow - Wall Street Journal
"Morgan City, La. - In the early 1800s, when labor shortages threatened to stop the expansion of sugar-cane cultivation in this swampy part of southern Louisiana, some European settlers seized the opportunity to strike it rich by selling slaves to the landowners. Soon the slave trade flourished throughout St. Mary's Parish. Traders became wealthy plantation owners, and their descendants are still among the socially prominent here. . . . "
Wall Street Journal 1983-06-23
I-"Dirty Work" - George Getschow - Wall Street Journal
"Houston -- It's 5 a.m., and the 120 tenants of Krash Cabin, a filthy flophouse run by one of the many day-labor outfits on the fringes of downtown, are getting their instructions from the burly bunkhouse manager: 'Get your asses out of bed before I throw you out,' he shouts. "One man, exhausted after digging ditches for 10 hours in 85-degree heat the day before, begs to be allowed to recuperate in his bunk. 'I'm too sick to work today,' he tells Bob McClarity, the tattoed bunkhouse boss. 'I don't give a damn,' barks the boss, hauling him out of his bunk. 'This ain't a charity hospital.'"
Wall Street Journal 1983-06-22
"War Games: In Alabama’s Woods, Frank Camper Trains Men to Repel Invaders" - Timothy K. Smith - Wall Street Journal
Wall Street Journal 1985-09-19
"An Experiment in Luxury" - Stephen Crane - New York Press
New York Press 1894-04-29
"An Experiment in Misery" - Stephen Crane - New York Press
New York Press 1894-04-22
"The Burning of Jim McIlherron: An N.A.A.C.P. Investigation" - Walter F. White - The Crisis
"Estill Spring, the scene of the third within nine months of Tennessee's burnings at the stake, is sitgauted about seventy-four miles from Chattanooga, being midway between the city and Nashville . . ."
The Crisis 1918-05-01
"I Investigate Lynchings" - Walter F. White - American Mercury
"Nothing contributes so much to the continued life of an investigator of lynchings and his tranquil possession of all his limbs as the obtuseness of the lynchers themselves."
American Mercury 1929-01-01
"Skin Deep; Reliving 'Black Like Me': My Own Journey into the Heart of Race-Conscious America" - Joshua Solomon - Washington Post
"In February I left my parents' house to move in with my brother in Baltimore, not wanting to have to explain my change of complexion to the neighbors. I began taking six Psorien pills a day. After four sessions at a tanning salon, my face was badly swollen and my body ached. A week or so later, my brother, Jon, and I drove home to Silver Spring for dinner. The change in my skin color must have been dramatic. My 9-year-old sister screwed her face into a horrible grimaced the first time she saw me. 'You're ugly!' she cried. I wanted o smack her but realized she was not really talking about me. . . . "
The Washington Post 1994-10-30
"Mental Health Fund Needed" - Frank Sutherland Series - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-01-31
Editorial: "Mental Health Deserves Top Assembly Priority" - Sutherland series - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-01-31
Editorial: "State's Mentally Ill Deserve Better Care" - Sutherland series - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-01-22
Followup: "Central State Needs Action Right Now" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-03-03
Followup: "Tragle Raps Hospital Critics" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-02-24
Followup: "Change in Central State Role, Scope Advised" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-02-21
Followup: "Report Urges Central State Improvements" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-02-19
Followup: "Central State Woes Reflected at East State Hospital" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-02-10
IX-"State Mental Hospitals 'Could Lose Millions'" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-01-29
VIII-"Officials Agree Central State Needs Reform" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-01-28
VII-"State Help Dire Need at Hospital" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-01-27
VII-"Hospital Complex Old, Battered, But In Use" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-01-26
VI-"'Ward Meeting' Breaks Silence" - Frank Sutherland - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1974-01-25
VI-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine
"A doctor is a quack when he claims to be able to cure obviously incurable diseases, and when he uses discredited or unestablished methods of treatment and makes great claims for them."
Life Magazine 1963-11-01
V-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine
"Mrs. Ruth Drown, who had been previously arrested and fined $1,000 for quackery, remained unrepentant: 'The advertising will be wonderful for me. When I get back to my office, I'll have more patients than ever.'"
Life Magazine 1963-11-01
IV-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine
". . . Mrs. Jackie Metcalf was used as an undercover agent. She had Mrs. [Ruth] Drown diagnose her children, including her daugher Jeanne, by analyzing blood samples - from animals (p. 77). Then Mrs. Metcalf came back with Life photographer J. R. Eyerman as a patient and took the picture at right with a secret camera rigged in her purse. . . "
Life Magazine Friday, November 1, 1963
III-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine
Life Magazine 1963-11-01
II-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine
"He told her, she testified at the [Marvin] Phillips trial, that cancer is a general condition of the body which can be cured only by chemical balancing. 'I can cure your child without surgery, absolutely.' . . . He cautioned them to say nothing because although he was a licensed chiropractor, he was not authorized to treat cancer."
Life Magazine 1963-11-01
I-"Crackdown on Quackery" - Life Magazine
"Last week in Washington doctors and law enforcement officials from across the land met in the Second National Congress on Medical Quackery to plan a nationwide drive against a spreading evil -- an evil that costs the U.S. thousands of lives and as much as a billion dollars a year ... "
Life Magazine 1963-11-01
Pamphlet Review - "Great Auction-Sale of Slaves at Savannah, Georgia" - Atlantic Monthly
Atlantic Monthly 1859-09-01
"Nellie Bly Buys a Baby" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"I bought a baby last week, to learn how baby slaves are bought and sold in the city of New York. Think of it! An immortal soul bartered for $10! Fathers-mothers-ministers-missionaries, I bought an immortal soul last week for $10! . . . "
New York World 1889-10-06
"Learning Ballet Dancing" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"I have been learning to be a ballet dancer. I have always had an almost manlike love for the ballet, and when I go to spectacular plays and to the opera I try to get close to the bald-headed row. Breathless with admiration I have watched the ballet twirl on its toes and spring into pitcuresque attitudes, the very poetry of motion."
New York World 1887-12-18
Follow-up: "All Doctors Fooled: They Try to Explain Nellie Bly's Stay in the Insane Asylum" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"The apologies of the insanity experts who pronounced the bright reporter insane, of the doctors who tried to cure her and of the nurses who fear exposure are set forth in the Sun in advance of any charges against them."
New York World 1887-10-15
Reaction: "Playing Madwoman"- Unsigned - New York Sun
"She has been doing newspaper work in New York for several months and is the metropolitan correspondent of a Pittsburgh newspaper. Her mother is the widow of a Pittsburgh lawyer. She is intelligent, capable and self-reliant, and, except for the matter of changing her name to Nellie Bly, has gone about the business of maintaining herself in journalism in a practical, business-like way."
New York Sun 1887-10-14
"Nellie Bly a Prisoner" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"The reasons for the undertaking which I describe below were: First, The World wanted to know how women - particularly innocent women - who fall into the hands of the police are treated by them, and second, what necessity, if any, there is for providing station-houses with matrons. . ."
New York World 1889-02-24
"In the Biggest New York Tenement" - Nellie Bly - New York World
New York World 1894-08-05
"In the Magdalen Home" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"Dressed to suit the character I wished to represent, I went late one evening to East Eighty-eighth street. I saw an old-fashioned building surrounded by a high brick wall, and I knew without looking for the number that it was the institution I wanted...."
New York World 1888-02-12
"Shadowed by a Detective" - Nellie Bly - New York World
New York World 1889-04-28
"Nellie Bly on the Stage" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"I made my début as a chorus girl or stage Amazon last week. It was my first appearance on any stage and came about through reading among THE WORLD advertisements one that called for 100 girls for a spectacular pantomine, so I found myself one afternoon at the stage door of the Academy of Music."
The New York World 1888-03-04
"The Girls Who Make Boxes" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"Very early the other morning, I started out, not with the pleasure-seekers, but with those who toil the day long that they may live. . . . "
New York World 1887-11-27
"Trying to Be a Servant" - Nellie Bly - New York World
New York World 1887-10-30
"Nellie Bly as a Mesmerist" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"Under the name of "Mesmer" the advertiser offered to reach the art of mesmerism, with satisfactory tests at the completion of the lessons. In a day or two, I had exchanged letters witg "Mesmer: and had received his price for lessions and minute directions how to reach his place of residence."
New York World 1888-03-25
"Visiting the Dispensaries" - Nellie Bly - New York World
New York World 1888-12-02
"Wanted - A Few Husbands" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"The New York woman can hardly have a single desire that cannot be gratified through some bureau or agency of this town. Through them she can get a house, have it furnished, secure new wardrobe, a good form, a clear complexion, the latest shade of hair and a loan to start the wheels of the concern in good running order. If she desires a husband, and a family warranted to have a marked resemblance, they can be had through the same channels at a nominal price."
New York World 1887-12-04
"What Becomes of Babies?" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"What name awakens such universally tender feelings as that of "baby"? Last week some philanthropist wrote to THE WORLD to suggest that I try to find out what becomes of all the baby waifs in this great city. Not the little ones who are cordially welcomed by proud parents, happy grandparents and a large circle of loving relatives, but the many hundreds of babies whose coming is greeted with grief anf whose unhappy mothers hide their little lives in shame."
New York World 1887-11-06
II - "Inside the Madhouse" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"As the wagon was rapidly driven through the beautiful lawns up to the asylum my feelings of satisfaction at having attained the object of my work were greatly dampened by the look of distress on the faces of my companions."
New York World 1887-10-16
I - "Behind Asylum Bars" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"On the 22nd of September I was asked by THE WORLD if I could have myself committed to one of the Asylums for the Insane in New York, with a view to writing a plain and unvarnished narrative of the treatment of the patients therein and the methods of management &c. . . . "
The New York World 1887-10-09
"Nellie Bly in Pullman" - Nellie Bly - New York World
"I thought the inhabitants of hte model town of Pullman hadn't a reason on earth to complain. With this belief I visited the town, intending n my articles to denounce the rioters as bloodthirsty strikers."Before I had been half a day in Pullman, I was the most bitter striker in the town."
New York World 1894-07-11
"Nellie Bly Again — She Interviews Emma Goldman and Other Anarchists" - New York World
"You have seen supposed pictures of her. You have read of her as a property-destroying, capitalist-killing, riot-promoting agitator. You see her in your mind a great raw-boned creature with short hair and bloomers, a red flag in one hand, a burning torch in the other; both feet constantly off the ground and murder continually upon her lips. . . ."
New York World 1893-09-17
VI - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
New York Evening World 1905-02-10
V - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
New York Evening World 1905-02-09
III - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
New York Evening World 1905-02-07
II - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
"I told the readers of the Evening World on Saturday how I had visited the Y.W.C.A. for help and guidance and how the one remedy reiterated to me at that really worthy institution was to return home at once. . . ."
New York Evening World 1905-02-06
I - "Where Can a Girl Alone in New York Find Assistance?" - Emmeline Pendennis - New York Evening World
" . . . There are hundreds of young women who come to New York from small country towns and villages with plans for making their living if not their fortunes. They find work as teachers, clerks, stenographers, usually upon slender salaries and all is well so long as wages come in regularly. The difficulty is that most bachelor girls earn so little that they are unable to save anything for the raindy day; and if the weekly stipend is stopped what does a girl do in such a predicament?"
New York Evening World 1905-02-04
Follow-up: "'Nat Caldwell Reports: Public Shows Deep Concern for Nursing Home Patients," - Nat Caldwell - Nashville Tennessean
"The outpouring of letters responding to recent articles on Metro area nursing homes is the largest I have seen in 36 years as a reporter."Two weeks after publication of the last article, the letters still are coming in. "There were a total of 162 persons who took the trouble to write personal letters or notes commenting on the series of seven articles. One was from a soldier on duty in Vietnam and two from out-of-state readers. . . ."
The Nashville Tennessean 1968-04-12
Follow-up: "'Take Us Fishing," Doctors Can't Cure Boredom" - Nat Caldwell - Nashville Tennessean
The Nashville Tennessean 1968-04-09
VI-"Medicare, Medicaid Cited: Nursing Home Betterment Seen" - Nat Caldwell - Nashville Tennessean
"Two new federal programs - Medicare and the less well known Medicaid -- can become increasingly effectiv weapons for improving conditions described in this series of articles on nursing homes . . . "
The Nashville Tennessean 1968-04-05
V-"Nursing Home's 'Pride' Pays Off" - Nat Caldwell - Nashville Tenneessean
"It can be done."A nursing home can be operted in one of Nashville's old brick and frame homes--at a profit-- and with all the humane considerations that--as a patient--I learned could be all important. . . . "
The Nashville Tennessean 1968-04-04
IV-"Residents are 'Guests': Belcourt Terrace Living's Good" - Nat Caldwell - Nashville Tennessean
"The old lady walked almost."Her pace was rapid for 83 years old, as fast as mine, impeded as I was by my crutch, and the necessity to reserve an impression. I had to appear to be patient. . . . "
The Nashville Tennessean 1968-04-03
III-"Fire Danger for Aged Ever Present" - Nat Caldwell - Nashville Tennessean
"At Sunny View Rest Home, 1227 16th Ave., S., on the second floor, a nightmare frightened me from sleep:"Fire! Fire! Fire! . . . ONly four of the 21 patients, unaided, could possibly have walked out of the home if it were burning . . . And I, one of the four, could not help the patients get out. Despeartely, I was struggling jut to fight myself awake. . ."
The Nashville Tennessean 1968-04-02
II-"For 85 Years . . . And This Is All He Had to Show" - Nat Caldwell - Nashville Tennessean
"The expensively dressed woman, apparently, had interrupted a busy day to drive in to the Trimble and Roundtree Nursing Home."She was speaking to her sister and to the dingy cobwebbed room, last early residence of an old man, her uncle. I sat slumped on the bed where her uncle had slept until the night before his death. I was watching and listening. . . ."
The Nashville Tennessean 1968-04-01
IA-"'Old Man' Headed Team in 6-Week Investigation" - Nat Caldwell - Nashville Tennessean
"On Feb. 21, a white-haired, bearded, stooped 'old' man limped on an aluminum crutch into a modern nursing home in Charlotte, N.C., in company with a young lady who is his cousin."Thirty minutes later reporter Nat Caldwell of The Nashville Tennesseean was admitted to the nursing home as "Green Caldwell" (Green is his middle name) and he began playing a role which was to take him on a six-week investigation of nursing homes in the Nashville area. "His investigation saw him admitted to three homes here, posing as an elderly, arthritic and eccentric citizen without an immediate family. . . ."
The Nashville Tennessean 1968-03-31
Mirage Reaction: "How Government Responded to Mirage" - Chicago Sun-Times
"The Sun-Times month-long Mirage series documented a litany of misconduct and prompted investigations by city, county, state and federal agencies. "Potentially far-reaching reforms have been implemented and more are promised. Laws are to be rewritten and strengthened. "Payoff-taking public employes have been suspended and fired. New protections against such abuse of power have been ordered . . . "
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-05
Mirage Editorial - "Fire Funds vs. Safety" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .Some fire fighters admit the on-duty sales take them away from their regular jobs, leaving stations and equipment understaffed. Some with high sales are given time off - while still on the city payroll - that takes them away from work for months at a time. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-06
Mirage Editorial: "The Public Trust Suffers" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .The price public officials here must pay to help revive public confidence is to set up an unbiased outside commission to investigate the corruption fully documented by The Sun-Times and the Better Government Assn. But the City Council ducked its duty two weeks ago when it voted 39 to 3 to shunt off to committee a plan to do just that. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-29
Mirage Editorial: "The Public Gets Burned" - Chicago Sun-Times
"Fire protection isn't cheap here. The Fire Department budget - more than $106 million - is the city's fourth largest. But the public isn't getting its money's worth. Mayor Bilandic says he is 'looking into' Fire Comr. Robert J. Quinn's management of the department. Only a thorough investigation and a full report to taxpayers will do. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-08
Mirage Reaction: "BGA Sees City Ombudsman Need" - Chicago Sun-Times
"The Better Government Assn. Monday urged creation of an ombudsman who would have power to investigate citizen complaints about dishonest or negligent city inspectors. Charging that Chicago is gripped by a 'pervasive system of graft' in which 'small businessmen and the public are the big losers,' BGA Executive Director J. Terrence Brunner said the city needs an ombudsman office to oversee its inspectors. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-10
Mirage Reaction - "Mayor Urged to Investigate Fire Dept." - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .In the final installment of the Mirage series, The Sun-Times disclosed on Sunday that hundreds of able-bodied firemen are routinely assigned to sell tickets for a charity that supposedly servies widows and orphans. Financial records show that a major beneficiary of the fund for the last seven years has been Quinn's ceremonial marching band. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-06
Mirage Editorial - "Solid Steps Toward Action" - Chicago Sun-Times
"A solid strategy to let the state attack tax cheating - as documented in The Sun-Times' Mirage series - is unfolding, thanks to Democratic Leaders in the General Assembly. And top Republicans seem ready to follow up the co-operation given the Mirage series from the outset by Thompson adminstration's Department of Law Enforcement . . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-26
Mirage Reaction - "Corruption Not Widespread in Agency-Fitzgerald" - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-14
Mirage Editorial - "Bilandic's Puny Response" - Chicago Sun-Times
"Mayor Bilandic's defense Tuesday of on-duty fire fighters' solicitations of ticketers for charities was absurd. It seems to indicate that he doesn't know the facts, doesn't understand the issues and perhaps isn't even sure who's the boss at City Hall . . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-09
Mirage Reaction - "4 More Suspensions in Wake of Mirage" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .The suspensions brought to 15 the number of city, county, or state employes disciplined for misconduct since disclosures of corruption and negligence by public employes began in the Mirage series. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-09
Mirage Editorial - "Don't Back Off State Probe" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .After Sun-Times reporters and BGA investigators reported widespread sales-tax skimming, Houlihan called for a special commission to investigate. He didn't imply corruption in the Revenue Department; he urged help for the department. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-01
Mirage Reaction - "Thompson: Probe More Than Revenue" - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-31
Mirage Reaction: "78 Unlicensed Games Seized" - Chicago Sun-Times
"State revenue agents Monday, acting on information uncovered by the BGA and The Sun-Times, raided 21 locations and seized 78 unlicensed pinball and video game machines and jukeboxes. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-24
"A Vendor's Pitch — Chicago Style" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
"The vending machine operators kept warning the Mirage to stay away from the Zenith Vending Corp. ""Once they get an account, they don't lose it' ... "
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-24
Mirage Editorial - "Public Service Ripoffs" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .Though Chicagoans long suspected much of the wrongdoing that The Sun-Times and the BGA found, it's now documented. And it's clear that too few in government could - or wanted to - clean up the mess. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-22
Mirage Reaction: "State to Audit 4 Mirage Suppliers" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .The salesmen each offered to violate or actually did violate various laws regulating kickbacks, the transfer of liquor and credit reporting. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-21
Mirage Editorial - "Council's Spineless Step" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .Chicago's reputation is tarnished more and more by too little being done to end shakedowns by city inspectors and others. The Sun-Times and the BGA found bribery common. They found tax skimming common. They found threats to patrons' safety overlooked for a few bucks in an envelope. They found unsafe buildings approved for a payoff. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-19
Mirage Reaction: "State Panel Investigating Tax Fraud" - Chicago Sun-Times
"The Illinois Department of Revenue Wednesday announced that a special fraud unit had been formed to investigate the widespread tax cheating documented by The Sun-Times and BGA. It was learned that one of the first steps taken by the new unit was to subpena some records of seven accountants or bookkeepers hired by the Mirage. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-19
Mirage Reaction: "Suspend 2 Who Ignored Health Hazards" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .Edward F. King, assisstant health commisioner, announced that inspectors Robert Hansen and David Weingarten would be off the city payroll for an as yet undetermind length of time. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-18
Mirage Reaction: "Council Gets Fraud Probe Motions" - Chicago Sun-Times
"Two resolutions urging the City Council to investigate wrongdoing uncovered by The Sun-Times and the Better Government Association at the Mirage were sent Tuesday to the Finance Committee for study. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-18
Mirage Editorial: "Showdown in City Council" - Chicago Sun-Times
"Now the test. Will the City Council do its duty and take firm, full steps against the kinds of corruption revealed at the Mirage? Or will it go only part way and adopt measures too timid to spur genuine reform or give the public confidence that it cares? . . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-17
"What Permits? City Bind to Own Rules" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
"The Mirage was able to learn firsthand about the installation of illuminated signs in Chicago. But it also learned something interesting about a different kind of sign - the nonilluminated variety. There are thousands of these signs across the city. None of them have city permits. The Mirage could not find anyone in City Hall who seems to know why. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-17
Mirage Editorial: "State Reforms Needed" - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-15
Mirage Reaction: "Mirage Triggers 3-Way Probe" - Chicago Sun-Times
". . .The announcements were triggered by weeklong disclosures of payoff acceptances, tax skimming and other misconduct experienced by Sun-Times and BGA investigators while secretly operating the Mirage, a tavern at 731 N. Wells. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-14
Mirage Editorial: "Council Still Must Act" - Chicago Sun-Times
"There's still no doubt. Despite Mayor Bilandic's promise Thursday to tighten city licensing and inspection procedures, we call for an independent blue-ribbon commission to investigate the Mirage disclosures fully and stop the corruption that posions the city. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-13
Mirage Editorial - "Next Steps Against Graft" - Chicago Sun-Times
"it's clear now that independent investigations - by both Illinois and Chicago - are needed to tackle the kinds of wrongdoing discovered at the Mirage. Business by bribe here is widespread and involves many millions of dollars. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-12
Mirage Reaction: "Probe Asked to Determine Loss to State" - Chicago Sun-Times
"Warning that systematic tax cheating by accountants and taverns may be costing Illinois $20 million annually in lost revenue, state Rep. James M. Houlihan Wednesday urged a special legislative investigation. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-12
Mirage Reaction: "Three Suspended Inspectors Named" - Chicago Sun-Times
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-11
Mirage Reaction: "New Fire Inspect Chief Vows Cleanup" - Chicago Sun-Times
"James Newbold, new chief of the Chicago Fire Prevention Bureau, said Tuesday that the Fire Department may need to establish an internal anti-corruption unit similar to one in the Police Department."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-11
Mirage Editorial - "4 Suspensions Aren't Enough" - Chicago Sun-Times
"Though some departments have moved quickly to suspend four city inspectors after the first stories in The Sun-Times' series detailing payoffs and malfeasance by inspectors, the lack of tougher responses by top officials is alarming. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-10
"Building Code Gives Muscle to Inspectors" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
"Hundreds of city inspectors move through Chicago each day checking everything from electrical wiring to kegs of beer in an attempt to protect health and safety. The state also has at least one group of inspectors charged with maintaining health and safety standards in taverns, restaurants and package-liquor stores. . ."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-10
Mirage Editorial "How the Public Gets Hurt" - Chicago Sun-TImes
"In the days and weeks ahead, the Sun-Tiems will tell a vital story of ugly government and private corruption. It will shock some readers and confirm the worst suspicions of others. It will show how the public is threatened by a system -- not just a few bad apples -- in the city that often works better for the crooked than the honest. . . . The first episode begins today."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-08
Mirage Editorial: "College Education in Fraud" - Chicago Sun-Times
"Phillip J. Barasch . . . a man who teaches small business proprietors in Chicago how to cheat on taxes, has many colleagues in that activity. Not one or two bad apples but a system of corruption is robbing Illinois of millions of dollars."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-09
"It Wasn't Just a Bar, It Was a Mirage" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
"The Mirage's customers sometimes wondered: 'Why did the bartenders run behind the back bar so much?"
Chicago Sun Times 1978-01-08
Mirage Editorial - "Officials Job Is Clear: Get to Work Against Corruption" - Chicago Sun-Times
"Are city and state officials responding as they should to the corruption documented by the Sun-Times' Mirage series? "Only partly." ...
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-05
"Mission Accomplished, the Mirage Fades" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
"It was time for the Mirage to disappear. "The last night came fittingly, on Halloween weekend, when everybody pretends to be somebody else. The Mirage threw a party as its way of saying goodby to the neighborhood. "The neighborhood didn't know it was goodby. All it knew was that the Mirage would be 'closed for renovations.' A new owner would open the place again in a few weeks . . . It had been four months since the Mirage had appeared -- time enough to catch the city in the act of being itself. And time enough, too, for a few close calls. It is that way with any masquerade."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-05
"On-Duty Firemen Hustle Tickets for Boss' Band" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
"Hundreds of on-duty Chicago fire fighters solicit funds for a charity that supposedly serves widow and orphans. But a major beneficiary is Fire Comr. Robert J. Quinn's ceremonial marching band."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-05
"Night at the Fights - Everybody's Punchy" - Mirage - Chicago Sun-Times
"The Mirage's customers got along just fine. They drank, joked, gambled and danced to the jukebox. "Then there was the night they all tried to kill one another."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-03
Mirage Reaction: "Mr. Fixit's Records Subpenaed by U.S." - Chicago Sun-Times
"The Mirage was not in business long enough to have filed a federal tax return. However, each of the accountants advised the Mirage that it would have to submit the same figures to the U.S. government as it had to the state. Otherwise, they said, the tax cheating would be more easily discovered."
Chicago Sun Times 1978-02-02