The Sun-Times Surprises Everyone with Reported Sale of Its Suburban Papers
The company’s suburban imprints largely subsidized the Sun-Times and Reader.
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Jose Lopez’s Last Stand
The Puerto Rican stronghold of Humboldt Park is fast becoming one of the city’s hottest neighborhoods. Meet the man who wants to stop that.
Photos: The 2014 People’s Parade in Humboldt Park
The 32nd annual celebration of Puerto Rican culture hit Chicago in June.
This Chicago Photographer Makes It Hard to Decide Between Iceland, Antarctica, and Africa
Dean J. Tatooles regularly travels the world in search of the perfect shot. We hopped on the phone to chat with Tatooles more.
Young Hugh Hefner Illustrates Chicago
A couple years before Playboy launched, Hef tried his shot at cartooning with “a rowdy burlesque of Chicago manners and morals.”
Dear Bears: Booing You Means I Care
One Bears fan is still reeling from the team’s depressing loss to the Miami Dolphins this weekend.
The White City in Living Color: Watercolors of the Columbian Exposition
A topographer, theater designer, and self-taught artist from Rock Island captured the now-forgotten plumage of the 1893 World’s Fair.
Why Are Helicopter Parents So Intense? Maybe They’re Scared
As the nation’s job market places an increasingly high value on skills and a increasingly high price on failure, helicopter parenting is an economic adaptation.
The 10 Must-Read Stories for this Week
Charter-school performance, no more red-X sign, and Roger Ebert, Wikipedia editor?
Five Things You Never Knew About ‘I’m Lovin’ It’
As an iconic brand gets a shakeup, a look at its longstanding can’t-get-it-out-of-your-brain ad campaign