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Sunday, July 11, 2021

Chicago's Homan Foursquare Detainees


For a spell The Guardian has been investigating the purpose past times the Chicago Police Department of Homan Square. The Guardian describes the facility equally "an off-the-books question compound, rendering Americans unable to last flora past times identify unit of measurement or attorneys spell locked within what lawyers tell is the domestic equivalent of a CIA dark site."

In a novel interactive presentation, Homan Square - Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 portrait of Chicago’s detainees, the newspaper has created an impressive visualization breaking downward the information behind the 7,185 arrests of people taken to Homan Square betwixt five August 2004 as well as thirty June 2015. Throughout The Guardian's presentation the 7,185 arrests are represented equally modest portraits. As you lot progress through the interactive the portraits are rearranged to exhibit the demographics of those arrested, the type of crimes people were arrested for as well as the dates of the arrests.

The information portraits are too rearranged to practice a map showing where these arrests were made inwards Chicago. It is real impressive how The Guardian seamlessly rearranges the dots from a nautical chart sentiment into an oblique map sentiment as well as and thence into a map innovation view. All made possible past times the purpose of Scalable Vector Graphics.