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World's Biggest Crane Sails Into the Port of Indiana, Is Awesome
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.
The Geography of Child Poverty in Illinois
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.
Chicago's Chick-Fil-A Fight: Bad Ideas, Bad Puns
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.
Poverty and Teen Pregnancy: Cause and Effect
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?
American Violence and Southern Culture
Why is America so much more violent—in particular, so much more homicidal—than other developed countries? One vein of history and social science suggests that its roots are in the South, and the British borderland culture that it originated in.
Chicago Alderman's Chick-Fil-A Block Goes National, Pulls in Emanuel
Joe Moreno’s stance against Chick-fil-A, and his announcement that he’ll use aldermanic privilege to block a Logan Square location, makes national news… and gets bad reviews, even from passionate supporters of gay marriage.
The Midwest Flash Drought Gets Worse
The intensive drought has become more intense, nowhere more than in Illinois—in the span of a week, most of the state went from severe drought to extreme drought, the worst decline in the 12 years the USDA has been using its current monitoring system.
The Ill Effects of the Long, Hot Summer
This year has been unusually hot and dry, approaching records if not breaking them. And that heat pervades everything, from roads, to nuclear power plants, to food prices, to traffic fatalities.
Chicagoan Tops List of 50 Most Beautiful in Washington; No Illinois Lawmaker Makes Cut
Chicagoan Max Engling, a 25-year-old former model and Republican staff assistant for the House Administration Committee, topped The Hill’s eighth annual list of 50 most beautiful people working on Capitol Hill. Only one other Illinoisan, a Democrat and policy aide to a Washington state congressman, made the cut.