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Despite its tremendous length and cost, Chicago’s incomplete Deep Tunnel remains inadequate to prevent flooding. The answer may be in our swampy past.

Single-room-occupancy hotels have long been a political and economic hot potato in Chicago. The remaining few are closing as the dream of a swinging, gentrified Uptown nears its second century.

Poverty has long been defined by family dynamics. But a recent revisiting of a 1960s study shows neighborhood dynamics to be as dominant a factor.

A brief history of the team (and the local rivals who became the Red Wings), set to music by Ministry and Richard Marx’s dad.

Beneath the city’s accursed block is a shell of a CTA station to nowhere, and no plans for the express train it’s supposed to house. But the plans were never very concrete to begin with.

First, doorings are really, really dangerous. Second, cyclists should stop at red lights. Third: just wear a helmet.

Answer: A lot, because the federal government hasn’t been very interested in learning what causes it and how to fix it.