Workout reboot: Zero-Cardio Training
Zero-cardio training helped this bartender drop his body fat by 7 percentage points.
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Workout Reboot: Group Fitness
After 12 weeks of group fitness, Tiffany McDowell lost 11 pounds, felt more energetic and had toned her body.
Workout Reboot: Personal Training
Personal training helped this fitness beginner lose 22 pounds.
Best Gyms Over $80 a Month
Here’s how the top full-service gyms in the city and suburbs stack up—ranked in descending order. What do you get at the upper end of the price range? Luxury and scale.
Best Gyms Under $80 a Month
Don’t want to shell out for fancy locker rooms, Olympic-size pools, and other frills? Check out these more affordable gyms, ranked in descending order.
Pond-Effect Snow, Nuke-Effect Snow, or Both?
The arctic air that just moved through the area produced substantial lake-effect snow off the Great Lakes. But both Pennsylvania and Illinois got odd, rare streaks of snow in the vicinity of nuclear power plants: perhaps nuclear-tower snow or nuclear-cooling-pond snow.
Republicans Can Make Progress In Cities When They Stop Fearing Them
The GOP has been losing ground in America’s cities, and the wounds are largely self-inflicted. If it can throw off its Agenda-21 fringe and its instinctual opposition to urbanist ideas that really shouldn’t be ideological, it could make progress—especially in red-state cities that are the new urbanist frontier.
Jay Cutler: Popular Among Liberals, But Polling Softly
Who’s standing by Jay Cutler? Liberal Democrats. Republicans in Illinois are more skeptical of the Bears’ quarterback, at least when they’re not rooting for the Packers. NB: poll results are from the week the Bears beat the Vikings, not their late season collapse, which may have disturbed the electorate.
Illinois Republicans At a Crossroads
In 2006, Illinois Republicans ran a social moderate against an unpopular governor, and lost. In 2010, they ran a social conservative against an even more unpopular governor, and lost. Now Bill Brady has moved to the center, conservatives are moving against their former standard-bearer, and the party has to decide again what sort of candidate should oppose Quinn (or a much, much more formidable foe).
The Sad Life of Peter II, and the Curious Disinterring of the King of Yugoslavia From Libertyville
He fled communist Yugoslavia by crawling down a drainpipe, married a Greek princess, and led a life of declining geopolitical intrigue that frequently brought him to Chicago. Buried in Libertyville, his body remained there for four decades, as his homeland reconciled itself to its monarchic past, aided by a popular American television show and the fall of communism.