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Best of
Chicago
December 2017
Politics & City Life
The Best Day of 2017 Will Be December 31
By Tim Schulte
The Chicago Architecture Twitter Accounts that Kept Me Sane in 2017
By Whet Moser
Our Top Stories at
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By Bettina Chang
Chicago’s Year in Headlines
By DS Shin & ShowYouSuck
10 Great Stories to Read This Week
By Whet Moser
How the Sears Catalog Captures a Time When Toys Were Less Pink
By Whet Moser
The “606 Effect” on Housing Prices Is Real, and Threatens to Displace Residents
By Whet Moser
Chicago’s Quirky Year in Creatures
By Teresa Manring
This Week’s 10 Must-Read Stories
By Whet Moser
With Bitcoin Futures, Chicago Enters One of the World’s Most Interesting Economic Experiments
By Whet Moser
Aiding or Exploiting?
By Alex Ruppenthal and Maya Miller
Elon Musk Has a Very Odd Sense of Risk on Public Transportation
By Whet Moser
French Pastry School Fears Closure If City Pushes It Out of Loop Location
By Mauricio Peña
This Harry Potter-Inspired Magic (Science) Class Will Make Your Inner Child Scream
By DS Shin
This College Student Stays Up All Night Literally Picking Up Your Garbage
By Patty Wetli
Streetwise Has Helped Chicagoans in Need for 25 Years
By Mauricio Peña and DS Shin
Why Does American Politics Feel So Hopeless? A New Book Explains
By Whet Moser
What the Supreme Court’s Travel Ban Ruling Means for Travelers
By Mauricio Peña
Morning Commute Feeling More Crowded? Blue Line Sees Explosive Growth, Data Show
By Tanveer Ali and Mina Bloom
10 Must-Read Stories About Chicago This Week
By Whet Moser
CPS Has a New CEO (Again). Here’s What to Know
By Kim Bellware
In Honor of Devin Hester’s Retirement, Let’s All Remember That Time He Raced a Cheetah
By Matt Pollock
Best Case Scenario for a Widely Ridiculed Sports Trade
By Jack M. Silverstein
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By Adam Morgan
What Does 2018 Hold for Left-Wing Democrats?
By Rian Watt
CTA’s Holiday Train Is Bringing Santa to a Station Near You
By DS Shin
These Are the Best Things that Popped Up This Year
By Linze Rice
New Data Suggest Chicago’s Schools Are Better Than You Might Think
By Whet Moser
10 Must-Read Stories This Week in Chicago
By Whet Moser
Most Flair for an Underappreciated Sports Play
By Rian Watt
Is Illinois Promising to Give Amazon All Its Workers’ Salaries for a Headquarters?
By Whet Moser
The Best Protest Banners of 2017 that You Can Borrow
By Mauricio Peña
Could Elon Musk Make Money Off a Blue Line Express Train?
By Whet Moser