Da Mare’s Expense Account
EXPENSE THIS!: Richard M. Daley may be out of politics, but his old campaign account is still going
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Why Chicago Isn't Detroit: More Theories
The collapse of Detroit is attributed to a familiar litany of reasons, but they’re ones that, in many ways, are shared by our city. A local urban planner, born in Detroit, shares some ideas for why the Motor City’s collapse was so much worse than its Rust Belt peers.
Charles Cushman and ‘The Day in Its Color’
COLOR THEORY: A new book on the Chicago street photographer gorgeously resurrects a lost time
What a Plague of Locusts Looks Like
In 1915, a group of Millennarian Chicago expats lived through a plague of locusts in Jerusalem. Their colony is now gone, but they left behind a hotel, Nobel Prize-winning literature, and some beautiful, eerie locust pictures.
William Beavers, "Hog With the Big Nuts," Indicted By Feds on Tax Charges
In 2010, news broke that County Commissioner William Beavers was under investigation from the feds, who were looking at his expense account. Today, the bill came due.
Barclays Capital Looks at Illinois's Underfunded Pensions
The investment bank sees Illinois’s shadow and concludes that our pension-funding winter will continue for another generation. But they’re not panicked… yet.
Falling Slowly
“Unless this has ever happened to you, you cannot understand the escalating sense of panic. I’d just get right back up, I thought. No. I could get my arms up on solid ice, but every time I did, another chunk broke off. Reach, crash. Reach, crash. The water had already saturated my parka, making my arms feel leaden. I don’t know whether the water was over my head or not, but I knew I could not touch bottom.”
Dorothy Brown and Rick Muñoz Debate at 43rd Ward Forum
Exciting races in the upcoming March 20 primary are scarce, so the race for the Cook County Circuit Court Clerk between three-term incumbent Dorothy Brown and Ricardo Muñoz, alderman of the 22nd Ward since 1993 is, in relative terms, the Romney-Santorum fistfight of Cook County. Tuesday night, the two Dems appeared at a forum sponsored by the 43rd Ward Democrats and moderated by Andy Shaw…
A New Push For Vocational Education in Chicago and the U.S.
In the city’s big moves on education yesterday, Malcolm X College is being reinvented to integrate with the Medical District, and Crane Tech will go through the same process. It’s part of a Great Recession trend back towards an old (and Continental) idea.
Long Reads Roundup
Boredom in Peoria from Kyle Beachy; a profile of Oak Park/River Forest’s wrestling coach; Seven Doe; why the carp must die; and more