In the day since Chicago got the G8 swept out from under us, there has been much lamentation about how the Second City just can’t catch a break. But the NATO summit is the one the cool kids actually enjoy. And anyway, not everyone can be Kananaskis (or Heiligendamm).
America’s longest-serving inmate, incarcerated by the state of Illinois since 1946, passed away after a decades-long battle to clear his name, equaled only by the efforts of his victim’s sister to keep him in prison. Doubts surrounding his guilt, however, are likely to persist.
The G8 says thanks-but-no-thanks to Chicago, as it moves its annual summit to the sort of place that it seems most comfortable: an impregnable resort with a history of hosting the very powerful.
THE ICEMEN COMETH: Corey Crawford has one of the loneliest jobs in sports. But now he’s got company: his backup and potential replacement, Ray Emery
Sarah is 36. In the twisted world of pregnancy, 36 qualifies as geriatric. Most of us generally associate the word “geriatric” with broken hips, early bird dinners, and Florida, and I have delighted in making my wife the butt of many jokes involving Metamucil and mothballs. Her response…
Sheriff Joe Arpaio claims that the digital layers contained within the Obama birth-certificate PDF are evidence that it’s faked. If you have a scanner and Adobe Illustrator, you can play along with the debunking at home.
The GOP frontrunner has been the subject of criticism and derision for his gaffetastic relationship to his vast wealth. It’s hard out there for the authentically wealthy.
In the wake of Breitbart’s sudden death today at the age of 43, Breitbart.com editor-in-chief and legal counsel Joel Pollak—Alan Dershowitz protégé and former opponent of Jan Schakowsky—says that his boss’s death was “out of the blue” and that his websites will go on “in a big way.”
Chicago has made great progress in cleaning up its skies. But the more we learn about air pollution, the more there is to address.
After years of protest and politics, the Fisk and Crawford plants will close even earlier than expected. But will it help Chicago’s high asthma rates? Outdoor pollution isn’t the only form we have to worry about, and it may not be the most important form.
