{"id":314,"date":"2013-01-23T14:12:21","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lottemeijer.com\/create\/?p=314"},"modified":"2013-01-23T14:26:55","modified_gmt":"2013-01-23T22:26:55","slug":"23-01-mapping-maffia-bombs-in-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lottemeijer.com\/create\/?p=314","title":{"rendered":"23.01 Mapping Maffia Bombs in Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I lived in Chicago I found a book\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0by Gordon L. Hostetter and Thomas Quinn Beesley\u00c2\u00a0called \u00e2\u20ac\u0153It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Racket<\/strong>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d in the beautiful public library. The book from 1929 describes the practice of Racketeering –
\nIt’s a gorgous book with chapter titles that tickle the imagination: “Cabbages and Kings”, “The ‘Daddy’ of Them All”, “Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree”. The first supplement, “Business by Bombs” features a detailed list of all the bombs that exploded between October 1927 and February 1929. With the date, address, business type, and the reason for the bombing.<\/p>\n

I did a project – showing violent Chicago’s past in the streets – about this when I was at the Art Institute.
\nAnd today I started to explore the interactive \/ data visualisation opportunities.<\/p>\n

.. To be continued.<\/p>\n

[Google Spreadsheet with all the data<\/a>]<\/p>\n

What I made so far:
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