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Dan Sinker heads up the Knight-Mozilla OpenNews project for Mozilla. From 2008-2011 he taught in the journalism department at Columbia College Chicago where he focused on entrepreneurial journalism and the mobile web. He is the author of the popular @MayorEmanuel twitter account and is the creator of the election tracker the Chicago Mayoral Scorecard, the mobile storytelling project CellStories, and was the founding editor of the influential underground culture magazine Punk Planet until its closure in 2007. He is the editor of We Owe You Nothing: Punk Planet, the collected interviews and was a 2007-08 Knight Fellow at Stanford University. He occasionally blogs about media for the Huffington Post.

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Chicago May, Queen of Crooks, Her Story, 1928, Chicago.

The autobiography of the infamous Chicago ganstress, May Churchill Sharpe (1871-1929), expert at the badger game. Pictured here at age 58.

The heydey of her crime reign in Chicago was during the time of the Columbian Exposition, 1893-1894.

Read more about the Queen of Crooks here: http://historicalheroines.wikispaces.com/BIOGRAPHY

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