One of the things that makes experienced cyclists most nervous is the ever-present threat of getting hit when a car door is opened into a bike lane. Some bike advocates are against any bike lanes that run to the left of parked cars.
Sudhir Venkatesh on guns, kids, and crime; Mick Dumke on the politics and economics of pawn shops in Chicago; a map of city food truck parking; and more
In response to a South Side labor protest, the mayor off-handedly mentioned the history of racial segregation in the “building trades.” It’s a long and ugly one, and even though private-sector unions have worked for years to undo the damage, we’re still living with it.
The locations of gang violence can be predictable, so much that UCLA scientists have modeled it with decades-old territorial models. But what happens when the gangs, and their territory, break down?
Far from the heated rhetoric of the charters-versus-public schools debate, a 2009 paper looking at a decade of charter schools in Chicago suggests that they don’t necessarily improve test scores all that much, but that charter high schools are good at sending kids to college, in ways traditional schools might learn from.
Where’s the pragmatic, capable, problem-solving Romney who was governor of Massachusetts, and whom many associates have vouched for? And can he re-emerge tomorrow night?
Chicago’s downtown—defined as everything within two miles of City Hall—grew faster than that of any other big city in the country over the past decade, and much of it grew younger, too. Outside that, it’s a different story.
With the polls showing Barack Obama on track to victory, the burden falls on Mitt Romney to derail the president’s train, starting with the first debate at the University of Denver on Wednesday night. University of Chicago professor Charles Lipson, who is voting for Romney, told me that the candidate is finished if he doesn’t win the first debate…
Obstreperous, loud, and unscripted, the Chicago Teachers Union president led the city’s public school teachers to strike against Rahm Emanuel’s reform agenda—and became a national figure overnight. Who is this person?
A timeline of key events in the history of Chicago Public Schools
