Today’s near-record high, coming right after a record-high Fourth of July, lifted temperatures higher than we’ve seen in years—but it’s still nothing like Chicago in the 1930s. Plus: why increasing low temperatures are more worrisome, and the possibility that corn might have something to do with that.
As soon as I saw the Sun-Times’s headline last week, “U. of C. prof wants to shelve Obama library idea,” I knew the story was about Charles Lipson. In the article, by Abdon Pallasch, the political science professor objects to housing the Obama complex because…
After a surprisingly chill NATO, Chicago’s police superintendent was the man of the hour. But the recent spate of violent weekends, and fear that the body count could continue to rise as summer marches on, threaten to tarnish the resumé of this one-time rising star.
Progress in decreasing homicides is difficult to sustain
About 78 years ago, Chicago went through not just the Depression, but the hottest day ever recorded in the city. On one stagnant day, the city baked… but the Tribune Tower was pleasantly refreshing.
Between the 1919 race riot and the end of the Great Migration, segregation went from specter of racial strife to legal doctrine, aided by the law and economic writings of Progressive reformers Richard T. Ely and Nathan William MacChesney.
POWER DOWN: This summer, book a stay on this northwest Illinois farm and let living off the land help you press pause
The 420-some unit complex, built by Julius Rosenwald as affordable housing for middle-class blacks in a segregated city, was once managed by Quincy Jones’s mother and provided elegant apartments at reasonable rates. After years of neglect and then abandonment, it’s now an expensive problem.
GOD IS HIS CO-PILOT: The leader of Woodlawn’s New Beginnings Church is hoofing it across America in a bold antiviolence crusade
The prewar Lathrop Homes at Damen and Diversey have long been one of the better public-housing developments in the city, and even in a deteriorated state are a good foundation for public or mixed-income housing. Yet despite their well-maintained landscaping, they’re almost completely vacant—among many other CHA units in housing limbo.
