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.
With the campaign season heating up, the Obama books keep coming. The latest: The Escape Artists: How Obama’s Team Fumbled the Recovery, by The New Republic‘s senior editor Noam Scheiber, published this week by Simon & Schuster. As is the case in most Obama-related books, one of the most entertaining characters is Rahm Emanuel…
The jewelry designer and lecturer lists 20 items she loves
The state’s mashup has created some intriguing 2012 matchups
Scientists believe that pregnancy affects spatial awareness. A woman’s pinballing hormones temporarily shrivel her hippocampus, turning the brain region that’s responsible for memory and spatial navigation into an entity roughly as reliable as a stylist at SuperCuts…
EXPENSE THIS!: Richard M. Daley may be out of politics, but his old campaign account is still going
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.
COLOR THEORY: A new book on the Chicago street photographer gorgeously resurrects a lost time
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.
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.
