Courtroom 302 may be the fascinating story of one season in Chicago’s Make County Criminal Courthouse, the busiest felony courthouse in the country. Here we start to see the system through the eyes from the women and men who encounter it, not merely in the courtroom however in the lockup, the jury room, the judge’s chambers, the spectators’ gallery. Through the daily grind from the court to the highest-profile case of the entire year, Steve Bogira’s masterful analysis raises fundamental issues of competition, civil privileges, and justice in the us.