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 Chicago Magazine
  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
• Tribune Photo Book Offers Impressive Look at City’s Lesser Known History
  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