Here Are This Week’s 10 Must-Read Stories
Learn the truth about Chicago’s crime stats, the city’s best restaurants—statistically, why local police are still making so many marijuana arrests, and more.
Ad Categories: City Life
How Chicago Invented the Suburbs
In a Q&A, author Elaine Lewinnek tells how Chicago developed in the wake of the Great Fire—and the way its growth influenced ideas on geography, racial divisions, and everything else that makes an American city what it is.
The Truth About Chicago's Crime Rates: Part 2
Murder makes the headlines, but crimes like theft and assault are far more common in Chicago—and your chances of being a victim may be higher than the police are telling you.
Rahm Is an Ass-Kicker—But Don't Confuse His Personality With His Politics
He may have a ferocious reputation for political hardball, but Rahmbo’s political history is defined by cautious compromise.
10 Stories Chicagoans Should Read This Week
A dining critic’s eulogy for Hot Doug’s, Chicago’s reclusive Democratic big-money donor, a principal blasts CPS, and more.
Geithner’s New Memoir Shows Rahm's Role in Saving America's Economy
In his new memoir, Stress Test: Reflections on Financial Crises, the former treasury secretary portrays Rahm Emanuel as the key political player in a White House on the brink of economic meltdown.
Where the Housing (and Debt) Bubble Grew in Chicago
Areas of high mortgage lending, foreclosures, and reduced spending overlap in depressing patterns, but also offer useful tools to inoculate the economy.
Why Is Milwaukee So Politically Polarized?
The divided city’s fault lines revealed themselves long before they split along the lines of the interstate.
10 Stories the People of Chicago Must Read This Week
Find out why the Internet killed the city’s pool hustlers, how the Blackhawks are using stats to (usually) win, whether or not a water pump in Schiller Woods is indeed a fountain of youth, and more.
21 Photos of Chicago's Cinco De Mayo Parade, 2014
From Cermak in Pilsen headed west through Little Village, here’s how Chicago celebrated the 151st anniversary of the Battle of the Puebla.