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A new study of Chicagoans finds substantial racial disparities in sleep quality and sleep patterns… which researchers suggest could be tied to the city’s intense segregation.

Measuring the toll of homicide not just in numbers, but in years of life lost in some of Chicago’s most violent neighborhoods; George Romney’s history of desegregation; and more

Should cyclists pay for bike lanes and other infrastructure through stickers and licenses, like drivers do? It’s been tried, and it doesn’t work very well—but there are intriguing alternatives that could generate modest revenue and give them important, if symbolic, skin in the game.

Well before the drought brought down the water on the Mississippi to historically low levels, boats on the Mississippi were already operating under restrictions—not because of a lack of rain, but of money.

The GOP is looking to take a majority in the Senate, and Claire McCaskill was seen as a vulnerable Democratic incumbent. So how did they end up with a loose cannon like Todd Akin? With a lot of help from McCaskill.

On Chicago Tonight, the CPD head lays out his rationale for no longer offering individual-recognizance bonds to gang members for misdemeanor offenses.

Thanks to Mitt Romney’s choice of running mate, the Objectivist author is back in the political spotlight again, emphasizing the influence fiction can have on the realities of governance.

The great Paul Tough goes from Roseland to Washington to figure out what Barack Obama has done about poverty; a fine-grained look at a bureaucratic housing nightmare; and the latest on the MF Global debacle.