Why we can’t all just get along: the Tea Party and the Occupy movement represent different things, and even basic questions of employment and hygiene are rending the country asunder.
I asked Ricardo “Rick” Muñoz why an independent alderman who for 18 years has represented a surging Latino population—the heart of his 22nd ward is Little Village—wants to trade that job for the Clerk of the Circuit Court of Cook County…
Born to the Soviet dictator, Svetlana Alliluyeva married and divorced powerful men—including Frank Lloyd Wright’s engineer—and lived throughout the world. But her final home was a tiny community in central Wisconsin.
A collection of stories, tweets, and tributes chronicling the life and impact of Chicago’s former first lady, including a 1994 article from the Chicago magazine archives.
FROM OUR APRIL 1994 ISSUE: With good works and a deft political touch, Maggie has quietly carved a special role for herself. Now, the departure from Bridgeport has put her in the spotlight, and she doesn’t like being there.
For the judgment of the Almighty upon the perversity and wickedness of James Buchanan; for the subsidence of the Potato-rot, and for the improvement in the virtue of Congressmen; for Sewerage by and by; and other reasons Chicagoans were grateful.
Giving thanks for the rebel prisoners, the war tax, the earth still unloading her manifold wealth: Thanksgiving during (Civil) wartime.
A trove of negatives chronicling the reversal of the Chicago River reveals a gritty city on the make—and a haunting landscape beyond Chicago that’s been lost forever
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Decatur-area rep Bill Mitchell introduced a bill that would separate Cook County from the rest of the state, because they hold “different and firmly seated views” on “politics, society, and economics.” Could downstate survive? Only if they convinced the collar counties to jump.
