With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning looming, the L is in trouble. Here’s why our train is worth saving. Read more
Jens Ludwig questions everything you thought you knew about shootings. Read more
In an exclusive interview, the senator laments the lack of resistance to Trump and describes her rescue in Iraq as a “gift.” Read more
Our neighbor to the east is trying to annex downstate counties and, worse, lure the Bears, whom we’d actually miss. Read more
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May Agenda
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This adapted excerpt from Karen Lewis’s posthumous new memoir recounts the transformation of the Chicago Teachers Union into a disrupter of the status quo. Read more
A lab at the University of Chicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines. Read more
Eileen O’Neill Burke was elected State’s Attorney by vowing to get tough on crime. But her approach to making Chicago safer is more nuanced than you might think. Read more