The obscure how-to book, written by a Minnesota writing teacher, and first published in 1938, had been Daley vacation reading. The club appears to have emboldened the students. They come fully prepared to talk about the books they have read. They feel like they have to step up. It dates from their joint work on the Greylord investigation of judicial corruption in the 1980s, when Daley was Cook County state's attorney and Turow served as an assistant U.S. attorney.
Actions speak louder than words.
It shows that not all kids there are bad. When Peoples graduated in June 1999, Daley gave the commencement address. He's encouraged us to work with other high schools in setting them up, and they're being developed in virtually every high school. Daley about getting the city reading. When the notes reached critical mass, I knew we had to do something.