A burning train car, a shooting under the Christmas lights, a killing in a doorway. Three tragedies close in space and time, the cause all the same. And no one with the sense to stop it.

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Ryne Sandberg understood that when a kid looks up at you with wide-eyed admiration, you don’t make a fool out of them. Craig writes a tribute to the Cubs legend who respected the game, and us, too much to let us down.

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The sound of a once-mighty machine is replaced by a resounding crack of a gavel, the final note in a symphony of corruption, patronage, and unchecked power that spanned more than half a century.

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