GREAT BEGINNINGS, 1811
“He disappeared in the dead of winter:
The brooks were frozen, the airports almost deserted,
And snow disfigured the public statutes.”
(the beginning of the poem “In Memory of W.B. Yeats” by W.H. Auden, 1907-1973)
CHICAGO SHOOTING GALLERY
The year 2021 was the bloodiest for Chicago in over ten years, with the total number of homicides topping out at 845. This compared with 808 in …