More on Air Pollution: A Sliding Scale Over Time
Chicago has made great progress in cleaning up its skies. But the more we learn about air pollution, the more there is to address.
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Chicago Coal-Fired Power Plants Will Close to Combat the Smoke Horror
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.
Rahm’s Role in Fumbling the Economy: Tidbits from a New Obama Book
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…
Fashion Scholar Gillion Carrara’s Favorite Things
The jewelry designer and lecturer lists 20 items she loves
Hot Seats in Illinois’s Remap
The state’s mashup has created some intriguing 2012 matchups
Week 21: Broom of The System
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…
Da Mare’s Expense Account
EXPENSE THIS!: Richard M. Daley may be out of politics, but his old campaign account is still going
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.