Cubs’ ticket prices have gone up 265 percent in two decades; the White Sox have had one of the largest price increases in the past few years, to the extent that they can’t fill a stadium with a competitive team. Tax subsides are in part to blame, but there’s a better way.
A new study finds that the intuitive logic about protected bicycle lanes and bicycle tracks outweighs the received wisdom: the better defined the infrastructure, the safer it is. Plus: a look at Sao Paulo’s bicycle schools.
Illinois has a rep as a high tax state, and by some measures it’s true—a high nominal corporate income tax rate to go along with high property and sales taxes. Our income tax is low, but it’s not low for everyone.
Neil Steinberg’s latest book, You Were Never in Chicago (out November 9), is a treasure trove of Windy City trivia. Think you know your hometown? Take our quiz inspired by the book!
In the 1950s, the American Medical Association—with the help of the first political PR firm—launched a full-on assault against Harry Truman’s national health care plan, connecting it (and all sorts of other subsidies) to the specter of socialism. But it backed an approach not unlike the ACA.
October 10, 2012–Guests joined Mercedes-Benz and Chicago magazine at Mitchell Gold + Bob Williams to honor three influential couples in the Chicago community. The Mercedes-Benz “Power Couples” honored were Corri McFadden and Spiro Tsaparas, Ann and Fernando Beteta, and Sasha and Greg Adler. Mercedes-Benz regional marketing manager Effie Gountanis introduced the couples while guests nibbled on tasty bites and sipped Peroni.
Democrats have tried to pin Paul Ryan and Joe Walsh on the redistricted Republican freshman, perhaps the most vulnerable Republican House member not named Joe Walsh. But New York’s mayor is riding to the rescue with his boutique PAC.
Chicagoland’s notorious rep caused a stir by saying, in his WTTW debate with Tammy Duckworth, that modern science has made it so that there’s no exception for the life of the mother in the case of abortion. It’s… complicated. Here’s an introduction.
Under Cook County’s proposed new 2013 budget, cigarette taxes would go up, and guns and bullets would each get taxed. It’s how cities and localities everywhere are responding to the recession and the housing crisis.
The Obama campaign knows who you are and what you like—and they’re trying to figure out what that means now, and in the future. They’re way ahead of journalists, and the public, on how voting is done in America.
