Chicago now has less than ten percent of the number of taverns as it did in the days of the saloon. Two abstemious mayors, the changing demographics of alcohol consumers, and the spread of liquor licenses to other establishments have done them in.
Alice Clement was an early feminist, foe to mashers, friend of lost girls, movie producer (and star)… and Chicago’s first female detective. Plus: Cora Strayer and Kate Warne, early female gumshoes of the private sector.
The administration’s health policy, in combination with decade-old EEOC rules, has created a media firestorm about religious freedom, with pundits calling it the end of Obama’s chances in 2012. In the real world, it will probably provide a modest electoral boost.
UIUC’s Somnath Baidya Roy wrote a 2010 paper on how wind farms effect nearby surface temperatures. In 2012, it got picked up and used as a cudgel in the climate-change wars.
“Halftime in America”: anti-capitalist, anti-union, anti-Union, and worst of all, anti-Norse. Everyone hates the Super Bowl’s most beloved ad.
OBAMALAND REDUX: A look at new faces in new places as the president gears up for November
Does Chicago’s new city sticker depict the signs and symbols of the Maniac Latin Disciples? Or is it an annunciation of the city’s public safety officials? It’s as much in the eye of the beholder as anything.
The organization that helped inspire the new Kinzie bike lane stops by Chicago for one of its “Cities for Cycling” roadshows, as the city attempts to expand its cycling infrastructure… and protect bikers and drivers from each other.
Chicago’s youth violence numbers remain terrible, both in comparison to broader homicide trends and in comparison to our peer cities. One cause may stem not from the failure of the city’s approach to gangs, but its arguable success.
The third son of Secretary of Transportation Ray LaHood, Sam LaHood attended graduate school in Lebanon and was an advance man for John McCain’s campaign in 2008…
