Once upon a time, Richard J. Daley hired the Cardinals legend and former Cubs manager to lead a program to teach 200,000 Chicago kids how to play baseball, in order to combat juvenile delinquency—despite Hornsby’s considerable deficits as a role model.
The Columbia College prof and former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief adopted two sons from the country. After both were diagnosed with autism, she traveled there to examine the subject.
The new minor league team christens Rosemont’s 6,300-seat Impact Field on May 25.
J.B. Pritzker is running on a progressive income tax, which would require changing the state constitution. Expanding service taxes and taxing retirement income wouldn’t be so much work—but no one’s interested in doing it.
In the summer, Chicago’s beaches and waterfront parks become the city’s melting pot, its great leveler, a 26-mile-long stage for thousands of intimate vignettes. Over a single weekend, photographer Lenny Gilmore immortalized 15 of them.
The history of the Solo cup, home movies from the South Side, hard rains in the Midwest, and more
The Hyde Park-reared mutual-fund manager beat powerful incumbent Joe Berrios handily in the primary. Can he fix the problems that made his victory possible?
Counsul General John Saville hosted a fete to see Northwestern grad and Suits actress Meghan Markle marry Prince Harry.
The team’s first season without superstar Elena Delle Donne was a mess. But with Stefanie Dolson emerging, a full season of Courtney Vandersloot, and a haul of talented rookies, 2018 is the real test of their plan.
The ubiquitous plastic vessel has come a long way: from South Side immigrant inventors to big business in Lake Forest, a Toby Keith hit to syndicated TV specials starring its inventor’s wife—and now a galaxy far, far away.
