Records Suggest Chicago’s Gang Database Is Full of Errors
163 people in their 70s or 80s are in the 128,000-plus records, as well as people who are supposedly 118 and 132 years old, as well as members of the “Thorndale Jagoffs.”
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What If Chicago’s Hotshots Had Their Own Colognes?
After cologne maker Hawthorne recently created a fragrance for Chicago Bulls guard Zach LaVine, we took some guesses on what scents would be a match for a few of our city’s heavy hitters.
Find Chicago's Best Brutalist Architecture With the Concrete Chicago Map
Architect and urban designer Iker Gil pays tribute—and shows you where to find it.
10 Must-Read Stories for This Week
A fashion-forward activist, a lizard-mound mystery, the White Sox stadium that could have been, and more.
A 200-Level Course in CTA Etiquette
Step all the way into the car. A little more. One more step. Good.
The 1968 Chicago Riots—Why the West Side?
The area was at the tail end of the Great Migration, and still under the tight control of white ward bosses, when the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. set off the conflagration.
The Day WSNS-TV Chicago Got Word a Nuclear Attack Was Imminent
In February 1971, a 23-year-old TV director got an official “Attack Warning.” He checked the authenticator for the correct password: “HATEFULNESS.” Then he faced a decision: Should he play a terrifying plea from the North American Air Defense to take cover?
Art Shay
The photographer, 96, on Liz Taylor, JFK, and almost killing Jimmy Stewart
Are Changing Ward Lines a Source of Chicago's Violence?
A University of Chicago sociologist is investigating the possibility that small areas, which have been shifted between wards over the years, are more prone to it—perhaps because they fall through the political cracks.
The National Weather Service Forecast: More Budget and Staff Cuts
Just three years after the forecasters union says the Chicago region lost 23 percent of its meteorologists, the organization is facing more possible cuts.