A Terrible Night for Kenny Williams's Son Gets More Disturbing
Did concussions play a role in Kyle Williams’s rough night in the NFC championship game? He’s had a history of them, and his opponents knew the young wide receiver was vulnerable.
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High-Tech Health: 11 Best Health-Related Mobile Apps
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High-Tech Health: 15 Best Health Websites
Great sites for finding great physicians, getting deals on prescriptions, consulting doctors for free, and more—all approved by six tech-savvy Chicago docs
Mark Kirk’s Sudden Health Scare—Some Background from His Ex-Wife
With Senator Mark Kirk in recovery following a three-hour surgery resulting from a weekend stroke, his ex-wife—whose amicable divorce from Kirk was finalized in 2009—described the 52-year-old junior senator as being “into politics, 500 percent,” and rarely slowing down to take care of himself…
NATO/G8: How a Crowd Becomes a Riot and How to Prevent It
The shadow of 1968 continues to loom over Chicago, particularly with the twin summits coming later this year. Had the city been more flexible with protesters then, it might not have turned into a fiasco.
Today in Chicago Maps
The new ward map versus the old; tracking where the snow plows are now… and where they’ve been; how maps saved a cartographer’s life; a lament for LineDrive; and more.
Good Reads on Chicago Politics
New TIFs proposed, including a venture-capital twist on the old fund; the making of an alderman; the head of The Woodlawn Organization; and much more.
The New Chicago Ward Map Passes
Chicago gets sliced and diced again, especially the Second Ward, where Alderman Fioretti is a “remamp victim of Euclidean geometry as much as politics.”
The Chicago G8/NATO Summits and the 'Neglected Right of Assembly'
In advance of this spring’s summits, the city moves to close holes in its regulation of public protest. The process hasn’t always been so fine-tuned, one legal scholar argues: the intensive regulation of assembly arose in the second half of the nation’s history.
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