It’s common knowledge that two of Chicago’s wealthiest families—the Crowns and the Pritzkers—are staunch Obama supporters, so it surprised me to read earlier this year that Susan Crown, 53, was supporting Mitt Romney for president. I wondered: Why isn’t she in the Obama camp like her older brother, Jim, president of Henry Crown & Co.?…
INSIDER’S GUIDE: A rock-star teashop on the North Shore? Yes—and more
Public transportation use in Chicago has hit levels not seen since the 1990s, mostly because of rising gas prices and employment. It’s up throughout the U.S., though the increase is mostly in rail rather than buses.
This time, the Illinois presidential primary matters. But it’s not looking like a close contest, with Mitt Romney expected to pick up a substantial victory over Rick Santorum, with the Mormon picking up the Catholic vote and the Catholic courting the state’s evangelicals.
Hannah lost a tooth the other day, her fourth. In our home, the Tooth Fairy has a grand tradition of leaving these big fancy notes of congratulation—in addition to the money—in exchange for the tooth under the pillow. So that’s what the Tooth Fairy did, even though it was 11 p.m. and he had worked a long day and was tired, and he still had to clean the kitchen and take out the recycling…
ACE VENTURA: In our Q&A, the surprise pick for manager discusses his “midlife crisis” and how it feels to be the most underestimated man in baseball
NEIGHBORHOOD WATCH: Omnipresent security aside, living next to the most powerful man on the planet has its advantages
It’s accepted wisdom that crime gets worse in the spring and summer. But the relationship between crime and temperature is even closer than that, and the questions are many: does heat make you angry and stupid? Is there a point where it gets too hot to commit crime? And what happens after the heat wave?
Wednesday night’s dinner, carrying the theme, “America’s Backyards,” was in honor of “The Right Honorable David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland, and his wife, Mrs. Samantha Cameron.”
Here are the Chicago names I recognized, along with, in some cases, a bit of annotation…
Only five contemplating days ’til the next local election. In the contentious Cook County Clerk’s race between Dorothy Brown and Rick Munoz, the crucial issue might just be information technology and access to data.
