The Five Best Ideas to Come From the Columbian Exposition
To celebrate Ideas Week and the forthcoming Chicago Humanities Festival, a look back at five advances from the 1893 World’s Fair: the fax machine, the Hoochie Coochie Man, and more.
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Student Loan Forgiveness: Actually, We Already Do That
Occupy Wall Street and Occupy Together are stirring up debate on political policies that could help the 99 Percent. One that keeps coming up is debt forgiveness, particularly student debt forgiveness.
Roger Simon on Twitter, Newspapers, Roger Ebert, and More
On Friday, I posted part one of my interview with Roger Simon. Here, part two, in which he discusses his Chicago roots, his friendship with Roger Ebert, his addiction to Twitter, and what he misses about his hometown.
Back on the Beat, Back on His Feet: A Conversation with Roger Simon
The columnist and former Chicagoan, who suffered a catastrophic illness that resulted in the amputation of both legs, talks about his medical nightmare and how he bagged an Oval Office interview with the president.
Obama and the Left, After the War (Protests)
A study by academics at Michigan and Indiana suggests that the election of Barack Obama left the anti-war movement either co-opted or high and dry. What will happen to Occupy Wall Street?
5 Good Reads About Bill Cellini
Well, four good reads and a video on the veteran downstate power broker and his web of connections throughout the state. Plus: his patent for a “shower enlarger.”
This Week in Bike News
Good developments on the Bloomingdale Trail; should bikes be licensed?; our fairly obvious law on texting while biking; and more.
Adam Greenberg Dreams of Making It Back to the Majors
UNBROKEN: Five years after a bean ball ended his big-league career on the first pitch of his first at-bat, the former Cub still yearns to fulfill his big-league dream
TIFs in the Spotlight: After School Matters
Chicago’s inspector general finds that the charity founded by Da Ex-Mare’s wife got $915,000 in money donated by recipients of tax increment financing, through an opaque process that generated $3.7 million for various public and private organizations.
The Sticky Business of Playing Amateur Beekeeper
THE SWEETEST THING: One man’s life-changing summer among the hives