In an extraordinary two years, a young Chicago volunteer fireman became a national drill-team star, a friend and employee of Abraham Lincoln, a sex symbol, and finally the first officer killed in the Civil War.
How segregated is Chicago by wealth? Chicagoland is actually not very segregated compared to other metros, but if you zoom in and take a different look, other patterns emerge that parallel those across the country.
Mostly from Illinois and Indiana—and a surprising percentage come north from Mississippi. As far as how people get them, straw buyers are frequent, but friends, family members, addicts, and burglaries are all available means of illegally obtaining a weapon.
A new study looks at life expectancy, poverty, population density, and food deserts in Chicago—and finds evidence that, even controlling for many factors, access to grocery stores has an impact on expected lifespan.
Illinois has long been a key battleground in the debate over the Second Amendment, from the banning of labor militias in the 1870s, to the tommy guns that curtailed Americans’ rights to certain types of guns, to Morton Grove’s handgun ban, the first in the nation. And that past history, stretching back to the Civil War, determines what the state can and can’t do.
THOUGHT POLICE: Our columnist channels the musings of a seasoned… “guardian”
The new LR 13000, en route to Whiting to work on its $3.8 billion expansion, is so big that you can hang regular-size cranes from it to make a crane mobile, or just use it to lift massive refinery towers.
A new study breaks down child poverty by county in Illinois: following national trends, the highest rates are found in far downstate Illinois, where Alexander County’s rate doubles that of Cook County.
The latest from the Chick-fil-A hawks: Mayor Bloomberg gives the thumbs down, and how to ban Chick-fil-A without violating the First Amendment.
No one doubts that teen pregnancy makes rising out of poverty more difficult, and teen pregnancy is more frequent where income inequality is high. But how much is cause, and how much is symptom?
