Cook County sheriff Tom Dart has put out an open call for people who believe they may be related to Gacy’s eight unidentified victims. A look back at what we used to assume, and now know, about serial killers, and how we got there.
Low-level marijuana arrests cost the city and county $78 million a year, according to research by Mick Dumke and Ben Joravsky, about the same as New York City spends on enforcement. It’s a lot of money, but does it actually make us safer? There’s research to suggest the opposite.
Mayor Emanuel proposed doubling water rates over the next five years as part of his first budget. It’s a big increase, but are we being squeezed or just catching up to our civic peers?
A young reporter’s job goes down in flames after a plagiarism scandal. There’s a better way. Plus: the Reuters correction I’d like to see.
TURN BACK THE CLOCK: With area docs studying the treatment’s benefits for older women and men, youth may no longer be wasted only on the young
A plea for more parks; the historical and political reasons why the West Side is a park desert; why Daniel Burnham is overrated; and a brilliant plan for dock, alley, and railyard parks. Plus: an unsung hero of Chicago landscape design.
This week in Mayor Emanuel: from the light load of big ideas with Michael Bloomberg, Kasim Reed, and Thomas Friedman at Ideas Week… to the heavy lifting of little governing ones with City Council.
A study looks at Seattle’s bus-tracker system, and finds nothing but love. The biggest benefit? Eliminating the mystery of the next bus’s arrival.
My last book was about Bill Clinton’s post-presidency. He was in exile back in 2001, almost broken by the Lewinsky scandal, with his outlandish pardon to billionaire Iran arms trader Marc Rich nearly finishing him off. Today, soaring in mass affection while his onetime nemesis Barack Obama (think 2008 primaries) sinks, Clinton is no longer anything close to an exile; he’s the toast of every town and country he visits. When news broke that he was coming to town for Chicago Ideas…
Photographer Michael Nye spent four and a half years collecting the stories and images of 52 Americans who suffer from hunger. The resulting exhibit is showing through October 30 at St. James Cathedral.
