Yesterday the trial of Hans Peterson for the murder of Chicago dermatologist Dr. David Cornbleet began in Guadalupe. A shocking crime that dominated local news with the security-camera footage of the suspect, it’s since fallen off the radar but will likely come to a conclusion this week.
The GOP’s current not-Romney suggests that we fire all the janitors and employ poor kids to clean the schools. It’s a bit like the Japanese idea of gakko soju… but also the opposite.
The Bears will lose their starting quarter back for the rest of the regular season, or most of it. But Cutler’s not the most important element of the team, and Caleb Hanie has shown flashes of competence and confidence.
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Heads alternative executive branch as masked vigilante. Tackles advocacy work for incarcerated Illinois governors. Takes up the ballet that Rahm abandoned. Unsuccessfully petitions Dan Sinker to start a Twitter feed about him. Aborts attempt to speak on the national circuit when no one outside Cook County can … Read more
A University of Illinois prof proposes a new form of public transportation that’s somewhere between college drunk vans and Cuba’s taxi colectivo system.
Milwaukee’s former mayor, in an interview with Grid Chicago, says the fact that Chicago held onto its public transportation network during the massive road-building of the mid-20th century preserved it from the collapse its Midwestern peers have faced.
Gingrich, who has been accused of lobbying for Freddie Mac, need look no further for a soulmate than the West Wing of the White House, where he’ll find Daley, a former nonregistered lobbyist.
BoA’s chintzy, cheap—literally and figuratively—Wabash Bridge ads are a sorry point in the not-entirely-bad history of civic advertising, which can be done right if someone in the process cares to do so.
In the wake of Rahm Emanuel’s first budget, which passed today unanimously, five graphs that show how the city’s imperiled finances got to be the way they are.
