Rahm Emanuel Lets Them Eat Cheesecake
The mayor relies on Eli’s, located in his old congressional district, to lure pols and CEOs.
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Can Barbara Byrd-Bennett Save Chicago’s Schools?
The CPS chief must fix the district’s dire finances—and that’s just task one.
Here Are This Week’s 10 Must-Read Stories
See a Sun-Times photographer’s coverage of Ferguson, read why the Cubs’ plan to rebuild is brilliant, make sense of Chicago’s gentrification patterns, and more.
Chicago to Congress Theater: Turn Down for EDM
A new agreement with the city bans electronic dance music at the Logan Square venue. Here’s a handy guide to what might be permissible—and what might be verboten.
Maybe We're in a 'Libertarian Moment' After All
A rare glimpse into the politics of very wealthy, politically influential people speaks volumes about the direction of national, state, and local policy—even if Americans as a whole don’t agree with it.
Chicago Architecture Foundation’s Behind the Scenes Event at Thalia Hall
July 30, 2014—The Chicago Architecture Foundation hosted an event at Pilsen's Thalia Hall as part of its Behind the Scenes series. Attendees enjoyed refreshments while hearing about the hall’s storied past from Tim Samuelson, the City of Chicago’s cultural historian. Thalia Hall was founded by John Dusek in 1892 and was modeled after the Prague … Read more
Memories of a Childhood Selling Cheese
What I learned watching my dad become a smalltime cheesemonger at farmer’s markets in the 1970s, way before “artisanal” was part of anyone’s vocabulary.
How Early-Childhood Education Can Aid the Poorest Children
A Nobel-winning University of Chicago economist finds that a simple program from Jamaica allowed malnourished toddlers to catch up to their peers, decades later.
The Big Picture: Here Lies the World's First Nuclear Reactor
See Jeremy Bolen’s irradiated photos of the site, buried under a marked grave at a forest preserve in Chicago’s southwest suburbs.
Why and How Chicago Neighborhoods Gentrify—and When
A new study by a longtime Chicago researcher suggests that there’s a “threshold” for neighborhoods that are about to gentrify.