Wedlock: Love and Marriage at the Cook County Jail (original) (raw)

Feature Wed Sep 28 2011

By Darryl Holliday. Illustrated by Erik Nelson Rodriguez.

We consider it a sort of genre-bending -- journalistic reporting with comic books. Graphic journalism.

Our first story follows one Chicago woman through her marriage at the Cook County courthouse to her fiancé, an inmate at the county jail who will eventually be tried for first-degree murder. His next court date is Oct. 13, 2011.

All illustrations and narrative are pulled from a flow of events during this year's annual Department of Corrections ceremonies. All of the words spoken by people in this story are actual words spoken by actual people. Everything else is up for interpretation.

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This feature is supported in part by a Community News Matters grant from The Chicago Community Trust and the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. More information here.