The Courtroom Artist Residency Report: Residencies #13-16

This is a collection of reports from Public Collectors’ meal-based artist residency. During these sessions, artists and creative workers observed Criminal Court in Chicago, had a meal at Taqueria Milagro, and discussed their observations. Each residency lasted six hours, including transportation within Chicago. This third zine contains accounts of the thirteenth through sixteenth residencies in this program.

In this installment, they cover a variety of different cases and interesting happenings throughout. One of the residents, author Marc Fischer encounters a judge that is hearing a case for the resident’s brother; another features an evacuation drill that forces people out into the rain, misadventures with metal detectors, a hired hitman to take out a judge and prosector and the ongoing case of Gerald Reed. This zine also contains sensitive content, including the case of a man on suicide watch that was sexually assaulted by an officer.