The Death and Life of American City-Planning Journalism
The American Planning Association put its journalism awards on hiatus because not enough people cared. Has urban-planning journalism disappeared, or just migrated online?
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Rahm Emanuel Goes After Public Safety Spending, Because That's Where the Money Is
As the city looks to reduce its budget and its pension obligations, it’s inevitable that public-safety employees would come under the green eyeshades. For all the fuss about clouted folks taking big pensions, the real problem is much more powerful: math.
Chicago Crime: Shootings Slightly Up, Murders Way Up. What Gives?
In the first few months of the year, homicides are up by half over last year, though shootings are up only 14 percent. It sounds odd, but it happens. Beneath the basic crime data there’s a lot of underlying complexity, but it’s not well-researched or understood.
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
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.