In October 1933, a plane bound to Chicago from Newark via Cleveland exploded in the skies over Chesterton, Indiana. It’s cited as the first incidence of American airline terrorism… but it’s still a mystery.
Skipping President Obama’s speech last night, Rep. Joe Walsh hosted a small-business forum at Schaumburg’s Prairie Center for the Arts. Yesterday, I posted part one of my Q&A with the 8th District congressman. Here, part two of our conversation, in which he talks about growing up in an Irish Catholic family, why he switched his stance on abortion, who his closest friends are in Congress, and …
Where “pop” becomes “Coke,” “crayfish” becomes “crawdad,” and other fine questions of American regional dialects. Plus: the origins of the “word, schmerd” tic.
The dangers and advantages of “social media” in the wake—or the moment—of national disaster, from the Kennedy assassination to the attack on the World Trade Center.
When President Obama takes the mic tonight for a jobs speech before a joint session of Congress tonight, Congressman Joe Walsh will not be in attendance. Instead, he’ll be flying home to host a “small business job forum” in Schaumburg, part of his suburban Chicago 8th District…
Why the USPS is nearing the brink, and what can be done to fix it. Right now it’s in an awkward position between subsidized public good and flexible private business, so the philosophy will have to change as much as the operation.
Seriously, this guy is busy. What made it into this week’s Chicago Guide was only the beginning. Read Coval’s full weekend agenda here.
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: The players on the city’s beep baseball team have the bruises to prove their toughness.
LOSS OF INNOCENCE: The star professor dedicated his 29-year career at Northwestern’s journalism school to overturning wrongful convictions and, in doing so, almost single-handedly prompted the end of the death penalty in Illinois. How did he and Medill come to such a bitter and rancorous end—in which no party escaped untarnished?
15 years after Bill Clinton pushed public-housing administrators to strictly enforce “one-strike” penalties, CHA residents can be evicted if anyone in the household commits a minor crime—or even if they’re charged, but not convicted, of one.
