Google picks up the Libertyville-based company for $12.5 billion in cash. The main reason has a lot to do with increasingly aggressive patent warfare between the nation’s biggest tech companies—a legal bulwark, in short. But the purchase may have implications for your cable box, as well.
WHAT I WAS THINKING: The recruiting firm exec reveals what he looks for on behalf of his clients—and what job applicants can do to improve their odds
From “The Interrupters” to adverse childhood experiences: CeaseFire is just one of the approaches to violence that’s an attempt to move the discussion into the field of public health.
In his recasting of the Omni Ambassador East Hotel into the more “inclusive” Public Chicago (slated to preview in September), the hotelier attempts to save the Pump Room (1301 N. State St.; 312-787-3700) by luring the legendary Jean-Georges Vongerichten to the kitchen. 1) What’s your agenda? We’re doing a complete makeover to the Pump Room … Read more
Alex Kotlowitz, our inaugural writer-in-residence, tells the story of Eddie Bocanegra, one of the characters in the new documentary The Interrupters, and discusses the effects of violence on individuals and communities.
Chicago’s fingerprints are all over the world’s tallest building, scheduled to completed in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia in 2017. Here’s hoping it doesn’t portend another financial disaster.
Judge Rebecca Pallmeyer rules that Richard M. Daley can be the subject of a civil lawsuit on the basis of his role—as mayor—in the Burge scandal. It might lead to a deposition… but the opening for anything more is very narrow.
Read our post about this new blog and its inaugural writer-in-residence, Alex Kotlowitz, here.
A short-lived 1960s-era program that transported street-smart Chicago Vice Lords to the hallowed halls of the Ivy League school has been largely forgotten—except by those who volunteered for the ride
A straight-edge Chicago wrestler grapples with kayfabe; Bruce Mau tackles the empire; Roger Ebert reviews “The Interrupters”; grain elevators and constitutional law; and more
