Jamie Kalven (born 1948) is an American journalist, author, human rights activist, and community organizer based in Chicago, Illinois. He founded the Invisible Institute, a non-profit journalism organization based in Chicago's South Side. Kalven has been referred to as a "guerrilla journalist" by Chicago journalist Studs Terkel. His work in the city has included reporting on police misconduct and poor conditions of public housing. Kalven won a landmark court case – Kalven v. City of Chicago – which held that police misconduct records are public information under the Illinois Freedom of Information Act. Thereafter, the Institute became a hub for information related to police misconduct in Chicago. In the aftermath of the 2014 murder of Laquan McDonald by a police officer, Kalven received accolades for obtaining a copy of an autopsy report showing that McDonald had been shot 16 times execution- style, contradicting official reports of a single gunshot wound.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1689:

The Royal Welch Fusiliers (cap badge pictured), one of the oldest line-infantry regiments of the British Army, was founded. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Welch_Fusiliers

1819:

The Bank for Savings in the City of New-York, the first savings bank in New York City, was incorporated. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_for_Savings_in_the_City_of_New-York

1984:

William Buckley, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency station chief in Beirut, Lebanon, was kidnapped by Islamic fundamentalists. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Francis_Buckley

1988:

Michael Stone, an Ulster loyalist, attacked the funeral of three Provisional IRA members, killing three attendees and injuring at least sixty others. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milltown_Cemetery_attack

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

comely: 1. (dated or archaic) 2. Of a person: attractive or pleasing to look at; beautiful, handsome; also, attractive but not particularly beautiful or handsome. 3. Of a person, an action, behaviour, etc.: meeting accepted moral or social norms; appropriate, becoming, proper. 4. Of a thing: beautiful, elegant, well-composed; also, delicate, fine. 5. (obsolete) Pleasing to the feelings or senses; agreeable, nice, pleasant. [...] https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/comely

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

I like mindful people. Fear prevents mindfulness, and then greed marches in because you are fearful, so you feel like you have to shore everything up.   --Ursula Goodenough https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ursula_Goodenough