As Barack Obama’s chief campaign strategist in 2008, David Axelrod helped craft a winning message of hope and change. Now he’s back for what he says will be his final political campaign. His game plan for 2012 could determine whether Obama gets to finish what he started—or sees it all slip away
On Friday, I posted part one of my interview with Congresswoman Jan Schakowsky, in which she promoted her new jobs bill and slammed the Republicans. Here’s part two, in which she discusses why she broke down during a recent meeting with constituents, how middle-class America is disappearing, and more…
Sears passes through another rough quarter, with store closings, layoffs, revenue drain, and more corporate turnover. Is it a brand that’s lost its identity, or did its customer base lose its identity?
A timelapse video captures the nighttime beauty of the Chicago grid going west into the distance, and an astronaut shows us a storm heading towards Chicago.
A last remnant of old Chicago, having served the Gold Coast for over a century, is in the process of being remade. Hopefully it will last longer than the two years that some of the Brown Line’s planking gave us.
If it sounds like an air raid downtown, it’s that time of year again, a magic weekend when the blood pressure of every downtown office worker spikes.
How the political ideals of the most influential economist of his generation became a movement for free-floating man-made island nations in the hands of his grandson, director of the Seasteading Institute.
The Metropolitan Planning Council suggests a much more ambitious (and expensive) version of ultra-express buses than the CTA plans to roll out in the next couple years. Plus: a chance to build, or at least judge, computer apps for Chicagoans.
The issue of redistricting congressional maps is back in the news, with the League of Women Voters of Illinois filing a lawsuit on Tuesday claiming that the new maps are unconstitutional. In July, 11 of 12 members of Illinois’s GOP delegation filed a federal suit challenging the new map. Congressman Tim Johnson, of the 15th District, was the sole Republican lawmaker not to join in the lawsuit. “I’m too busy serving my constituents…
