On Tuesday night, CNN’s Candy Crowley became only the second woman to moderate a presidential debate. The first? Native South Sider Carole Simpson, who talks to Carol Felsenthal about Tuesday night town hall meeting.
As Chicago’s notorious high-rise projects come down, the current trend in public housing looks more like how it began: smaller, more modest in scale and scope, like Wright’s plans for Francisco Terrace and the Waller Apartments, the latter of which still stand on Walnut Street.
After stints at Lula and C-House, her latest gig is at Amy Morton’s Evanston restaurant
For the beleaguered 2nd District congressman, the weekend brought more bad news. Legal experts weigh in on whether Jackson could be indicted in the next few weeks.
CMAP is pushing for variable congestion pricing for express lanes on Chicago interstates. Turning your commute into arbitrage is rarely popular, but it has to be at least a bit unpopular to work—otherwise, it’s hard to keep people off the roads.
Two profiles of the embattled representative, one from the beginning of his political career and one from what could be the end, bookend his ambitions and evolution, and show how what’s kept Junior as a local politician could also save his job.
An all-star roster of architects wants the city to preserve Prentice, one of the city’s surprisingly few Brutalist structures. They make an excellent case that it’s of substantial historical, cultural, and engineering value… but even granting that, is it still worth it?
HOME WORKS: The owner of several self-titled galleries and former Art Institute instructor on the Leica M9-P camera, Maison Martin Margiela tennis shoes, and more
The outgoing CPS CEO once described the negative effect of “revolving door superintendencies” on school districts. The average, Brizard said, was 18 months. He lasted only 17. What’s next for him?
After 17 tumultuous months running CPS, the current head announced his surprising—or not—departure yesterday. His replacement, a veteran of the Cleveland, Detroit, and New York public schools, has experience in the political tensions of a Midwestern big-city school district.
