As national outlets map out their divinations for tonight’s returns, it’s worth taking a look at knowledgable people close to the scene, who often pick up on developing patterns before they’re felt nationally.
Research by a University of Chicago prof shows that our political parties aren’t just divided red-blue down the aisle—each party has a centrist wing and a more ideologically pure wing, with a noticeable valley between the two.
As you might guess, TV viewers often give Apple’s visually engaging ads a pass from the DVR. How about political ads? Even though everyone claims to not like politicians, they’re apparently more welcome on the TV than that omnipresent, insufferable little gecko.
As both candidates battle down to the wire, and as Americans wait for the results to come in, Carol Felsenthal rounds up the most interesting—and amusing—Chicago-related political stories…
All eyes are on Ohio—but I’m interested in my home state, which has been polling in favor of Obama, who’s got an 80 percent chance of winning. He looks like the favorite, but to win he’ll have to maintain 2008’s unlikely voting patterns.
The head of her famous family’s philanthropy arm says that abortion and lifestyle choices are not “priority issues” for Romney, and she discusses Mitt, the person—not the candidate…
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As Chicagoland struggles with education reform, it faces a stiff headwind from income-based educational-achievement gaps that have been growing since the 1970s. What happened? Wealthier parents may have learned a great deal from programs targeted at very poor children.
In the city’s pedestrian plan, authors found a correlation between high-crime areas and lots of pedestrian crashes. But where’s the causation? Indian behavioral economists are dealing with their own, much more deadly traffic problems in Mumbai, and have a theory.
