The cost of wrongful incarceration and the city’s immense legal-settlement costs; Chicago’s new gun law seems as ineffectual as the gun ban that preceded it; a Sun-Times reporter gets caught in the line of fire and returns to figure out why; and more
A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that children on Medicare and SCHIP face longer waits and more rejections for medical care.
The Board of Education rejected Chicago teachers’ “automatic” four-percent raise, portending a showdown between the Chicago Teachers Union and the mayor, or at least more tension. Setting aside whether teachers are “overpaid” or “underpaid,” let’s take a look at how they’ve been historically paid.
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It’s a rite of summer—the night Chicago’s singles come out to play at the MCA—and it’s happening this Friday: Summer Lovin’ (details below) is your chance to mingle with the city’s 20 most eligible men and women over drinks and bites from local restaurants (M Burger, The Purple Pig) while supporting stroke therapy and research at Northwestern Memorial Hospital…
A must-read investigation shows President Obama is appointing top funders to prestigious posts at a rate greater than his predecessor. Missing from report: two former Chicagoans with the best jobs of all. Plus: startlingly low test numbers from the school system Jean-Claude Brizard most recently ran.
Will the grand-jury testimony of two new witnesses finally prompt Cook County prosecutors to charge their prime suspect?
THE LONGEST WAIT: A look at the 1993 murder of the Glenview teen. PLUS: Is a just resolution at hand?
Sanjay Khosla learned to woo customers the old-fashioned way—by selling soap off a handcart in the countryside of India. Now at Kraft Foods, Khosla is hailed as a globalization guru. His biggest win so far? Translating Oreos into Chinese
A psychiatrist and psychoanalyst talks about how narcissistic behavior disorder frequently expresses itself through shopping in women, and sex in men.
