Chicago vs. Jussie SmollettChicago vs. Jussie Smollett

Sentenced to six months behind bars for lying to the Chicago Police, Jussie Smollett became synonymous with a hate-crime hoax that played into the perfect storm of racism, homophobia and political fissures laid bare in the Trump era. But behind the former Empire star's stranger-than-fiction saga is a rarely discussed character: Chicago. A city that had been undergoing its own convulsions. The Smollett incident pulled Chicago into a whirlwind of closed-door decisions, pointed fingers and unanswered questions about crime and punishment in a city that could not afford any more distrust in law and order.more

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Chicago vs. Jussie Smollett

Sentenced to six months behind bars for lying to the Chicago Police, Jussie Smollett became synonymous with a hate-crime hoax that played into the perfect storm of racism, homophobia and political fissures laid bare in the Trump era. But behind the former Empire star's stranger-than-fiction saga is a rarely discussed character: Chicago. A city that had been undergoing its own convulsions. The Smollett incident pulled Chicago into a whirlwind of closed-door decisions, pointed fingers and unanswered questions about crime and punishment in a city that could not afford any more distrust in law and order.

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