While he’s pushing gun control at the local level, the mayor is encouraging Congress to pass legislation, a couple days before the President is expected to announce a plan… and Emanuel’s strategy looks a lot like the one he engineered in 1994.
Fifteen years ago, Lands’ End founder Gary Comer embarked on a wildly ambitious project to improve the struggling South Side neighborhood where he grew up. Lessons from Pocket Town.
It’s our annual February fib—that we love the brutal winters here. Time to stop living a lie.
Between her fundraising prowess and her connections to power via Toni Preckwinkle and her friend-of-the-Obamas campaign manager, Matteson’s Robin Kelly—most recently Preckwinkle’s chief administrative officer—has the inside track in the 2nd District. Being on top of the ballot won’t hurt in the packed race.
It’s a massive amount of money compared to other cities, but sadly typical when it comes to Chicago’s recent history of legal settlements, which are far out of proportion to major American cities. And it’s not just the CPD.
A model of crime contagion suggests that heavy segregation by income—and segregating the rich from the poor with a middle-class buffer—is worse for city crime levels than a mix of neighborhoods.
Despite the city and state’s court defeats over gun control, the mayor is making an explicit push to tighten the city’s laws, and is likely to target assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
A new report from the United States Global Change research program looks at the U.S. and climate change over the rest of the century, projecting hotter hot days, wetter winters, more 100-degree days, and deadly heat waves along the lines of 1995.
Some of Chicago’s great unbuilt buildings are as remarkable as the ones that make up its skyline. What would happen if Harry Weese’s Lake Michigan Islands, the Sears Tower on its side, and a Tribune Tower in the shape of a giant classical column shared downtown?
Looking at ESL speakers, the far north and northwest sides of Chicago have a great deal of linguistic diversity, with Belmont Cragin having a high number of non-native speakers, and West Ridge a breadth of languages. The far south side, on the other hand, is notable for its lack of non-English speakers.
