Some notes on “Mr. Bellow’s Planet” by Brent Staples, an essay about Hyde Park in the 1970s and racial fears on its streets. Observed four decades ago, written two decades ago, it still sounds entirely familiar.
Yet another iteration of the belief that markets are efficient and that segregation is perfectly natural is drawn by a controversial political writer. But even in a highly segregated city like Chicago, the numbers don’t back it up.
Will Guzzardi, the 24-year-old, Ivy League-educated former Huffington Post Chicago editor, announced Monday that he would pursue a recount in the March 20th primary for the 39th District State Representative. When I spoke to the Brown University graduate on Monday night, he was trailing by 125 votes to five-term incumbent Toni Berrios, the daughter of Cook County Assessor Joe Berrios. Guzzardi said he plans to file…
The beginnings of an oral history of Chicago school teaching; the state of Chicago health care; the neighborhoods with the most flower power; DIY urbanism in Logan Square; and more
I don’t recall arguing about baby names the last two times. Hannah and Max. In my mind, both kids popped out, we had the names ready to go, and that was that. Boom, done. The names fit, and they stuck. In retrospect it’s impossible to imagine them as anything else. You’d think we’d have this process down pat by now, but this time, we can’t imagine the kid at all…
A year into his rookie year as 47th Ward alderman, Ameya Pawar sat down with me in his office on North Lincoln Avenue on a recent Monday evening. Despite pulling an all-nighter—he was writing a paper for a graduate class at the University of Chicago—the 31-year-old energetically listed for me all of his accomplishments and plans as alderman, a job that few expected him to win…
Could switching SNAP card refills to twice a month, and increasing afterschool snack programs, decrease disciplinary problems in Chicago Public Schools? A new study—and Obama’s former OMB director—support the idea.
A new study from the Urban Institute, led by former UIC prof Susan Popkin, finds a connection between the movement of former public-housing residents, decreased crime in the urban center, and increased crime in relocation neighborhoods. The correlation is strong, but the causation is complex.
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