Push launched years ago as the pregnancy journal of a soon-to-be father who was trying to piece together the weird changes to his wife and his life. It resurrected itself a short time later as a travel blog to the Far East with baby in tow; then it buckled under the weight of diapers and bottles and Elmos, and disappeared for a few years. Now my wife is pregnant with our third child, which seems a good occasion to reignite the blog.
My wife is pregnant again. What could we possibly be thinking?
Social mobility has declined in America since the post-war boom, and the effects have been particularly hard on the lowest ten percent of the population. It’s an American ideal, but it’s not as easy or appealing as it looks.
It’s a lot, depending on your interaction with the campaign or related causes. But it’s nothing compared with Target, which can predict whether or not you’re pregnant, down to which term.
In an analysis of fatal and serious pedestrian crashes, the city found that they correlate with high-crime areas. It’s long been a phenomenon of interest to law enforcement and sociologists.
The debate over speed cameras has focused on pedestrian fatalities, and specifically child pedestrian fatalities. And it’s been at cross-purposes over some less than useful data. Expanding the scope makes a better case for them than the administration’s presented.
Why a “hole-punch” cloud appeared over O’Hare last Friday, a brief history of falling ice injuries in Chicago, and the diversity of our city’s falling-ice warning signs.
A new UIC report fingers the Chicago area as the most corrupt region in the country, and Illinois as the third-most corrupt state in America. But look out, pols: eastern Kentucky has a strong game going.
THE CUSTOMIZED SHAPE-UP: More people hoping to shed some pounds and improve their health are turning to personalized fitness programs with a medical slant. Here are four local options
DIVORCE WITH LESS DAMAGE: Cook County judge Karen Shields left the bench three years ago to become a divorce mediator. Here’s what she has learned about limiting emotional and financial pain
