Finding the Perfect Bike in Chicago
CRUISE CONTROL: Jeff Ruby tries everything from a hybrid to a recumbent and finds himself in an existential crisis
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Obama's Former Doc on the President, Health Care, and Ed Klein's New Book
Barack Obama’s physician of 22 years, who in the new anti-Obama book, The Amateur, described his former patient as “distant” and “lacking passion and feeling,” is sorry he agreed to talk to the author, Ed Klein.
In an interview Thursday at his Hyde Park office, 73-year-old Chicago physician David Scheiner told me that he feels “betrayed” by Klein, who uses the doc as…
Week 33: Who Robs a Pregnant Woman?
On Tuesday, someone robbed my seven-months-pregnant wife on Clark Street. No, there is not a special place in hell for People Who Steal From Pregnant Women, because there is no such thing as hell. But if there were, that special place would be in the same scorching, roach-infested neighborhood that houses…
This Week in Urbanism: Chicago Doesn't Like the Speed Cameras, Especially Chicago Men
A Trib poll finds that a majority of residents are opposed to speed cameras, with a weird difference: women are split, men are way against them. Is it because men are the ones who usually get ticketed? Plus: a look at the city’s eight-year plan to improve bike lanes.
Q&A With Kelly Degnan, Political Advisor to the U.S. Mission to NATO
The Medill grad, former foreign service officer in Pakistan, and recent political advisor to ISAF task forces in Afghanistan discusses her career, and the situation in the places where she first and most recently served as a diplomat.
Jim Oberweis Finally Wins One
MILK DUD NO MORE?: The dairy-magnate-turned-perennial candidate is the GOP nominee for a state senate seat
NATO Wrapups: Odds, and Possible Ends
Why NATO was just as flummoxing as the protesters outside; “Obama’s debacle” and other post-NATO reads; how the almost-redundantly named Operation Active Endeavour might represent the future of NATO; and more.
NATO Wrapups: How the City Stayed Relatively Calm
Comparing Seattle’s disastrous 1999 WTO riots with this weekend’s relatively peaceful NATO protests: what lessons can be learned about the boundaries between protesters and police?
Where Was Rahm During NATO Weekend?
Until late yesterday afternoon, when he summed up the success of the NATO summit in a press conference at the Office of Emergency Management, Rahm Emanuel was mostly missing from headlines. Instead, it was his Ravenswood house in the spotlight—after demonstrators protested outside the apparently unoccupied residence on Saturday, and news spread of a plot to firebomb it with a Molotov cocktail…
Northwestern Lacrosse’s Secret to Success
QUICK STICK: How the NU women’s lax team went from nowhere to six national championships in little more than a decade