A Chicago 'Fixer' Works the Inauguration
David Rosen of The Competence Group is a DePaul grad who’s worked for Hillary Clinton, Al Gore, and the DNC… and this week, as a go-to guy for getting donors into the inauguration’s best after-parties.
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Barack Obama's Progressive Inaugural Speech and the Timing of Justice
The President sets Stonewall alongside Selma and the Seneca Falls Convention in a plea for equality in sexual orientation: “for if we are truly created equal, then surely the love we commit to one another must be equal as well.”
How Long Does It Take To Defrost a Building? About Four Days
The Fulton Market Cold Storage building, which rose in 1923 in the heart of the beef distribution and racketeering district, had to be thawed out before it can become a mixed-use development.
Chicago's Year Without Snow
In defense of the Chicago winter and the Hawk Wind: it’s a hard kind of awe, but it’s the only awe we have in one of the least naturally wondrous great cities on earth.
Poverty and Wealth In Illinois: Upstate, Downstate
As you might guess, the collar counties are the state’s richest, though the very richest may surprise you. The poverty downstate is intense in places, along the lines of Chicago’s poorest neighborhoods.
Homes of the Stars: Joe Trohman
26 / FORMER FALL OUT BOY GUITARIST AND COFOUNDER OF THE DAMNED THINGS
The Memory Collector: Lost Chicago
Since it first appeared in 1975, Lost Chicago, recently reissued in a splendid new edition, has become one of the city’s essential books—but the personal recollections of its author, David Lowe, may be as valuable a treasure
Homes of the Stars: Julia Sweeney
51 / COMEDIAN, ACTRESS (“PAT” ON SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE), WRITER
Homes of the Stars: Regina Taylor
50 / PLAYWRIGHT, DIRECTOR, ACTRESS
Homes of the Stars: Alfonso Soriano
35 / OUTFIELDER FOR THE CHICAGO CUBS