Photos from Fit Society, Our Top-Secret Wellness Pop-Up
Attendees met at River North yoga studio The Space Between.
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Photos from the Ninth Annual Chairs for Charity
Vintage chairs, given new life by Chicago’s top designers, were auctioned off to support a great cause
Twelve Blocks
How do you capture life in a city as big and ever-changing as Chicago? Block by block. A dozen of the city’s best writers, poets, and creators rhapsodize, recollect, and reflect on their own special patch of pavement.
Friendly Confines
As an architecture critic who’s also a South Sider, I’m quick to boast about the stately homes on Bronzeville’s King Drive, say, or Beverly’s Longwood Drive. But here’s a confession: My favorite block in the city isn’t on the South Side. It’s on a short street called Midway Park, which harbors a collection of houses … Read more
The Random Block
After first light, people walk their dogs on the 2400 block of North McVicker Avenue. Six people, seven dogs. One teenager, clearly robbed of sleep by the jerk-start of morning, trudges along in protest. A woman, then another, uses the outing as an excuse to catch a smoke. A third jogs with her mastiff. A … Read more
My Romantic Bermuda Triangle
All the men I went out with between 2011 and 2013 met me on Buena Avenue between Broadway and Sheridan. I have been on so many dates on this block. So many dates. An impossible number of dates. An original Lifetime TV movie marathon’s worth of dates. Except none of the guys I went out … Read more
When I Was a Kid …
Ivan Brunetti is a comics artist and teaches illustration at Columbia College.
Five Truths and a Lie About Paxton Avenue
1When Uber drivers drop me off on my block, they ask me if I’m sure I know where I’m going. Do you live here? Is it safe? Are you visiting? I hate these questions. They’re right, though. This is not my block. I live with one of my best friends, the poet Nate Marshall, on … Read more
Urban Drift
As a flâneuse — one who drifts aimlessly for great distances through city streets — I like few pursuits better than setting aside an entire day, ideally no less than eight full hours, ideally with my best flâneur friend and fellow poet, Eric Plattner, to wander observantly from point to point. Among the psychogeographer’s most beloved emotions is curiosity; … Read more
Worst Year Ever
So many streets in Chicago carry themselves across the length or breadth of the city. They stretch for miles, changing with the geography or, at the very least, adding a lane of traffic. But not Elaine Place. Never Elaine Place. It is a one-block street between Roscoe and Cornelia, east of Halsted and west of … Read more