Cubs fans are always worrying about something. Since we’re not far into the season, and nothing terribly exciting has happened so far, this week they’re worried about low attendance. (For a Monday afternoon game.) But attendance is the last thing the Cubs need to worry about.
What do star athletes do after their playing days are over? We tracked down a onetime Bears cornerback who’s now a practicing dentist and a missionary; a former Blackhawks star who copilots jetliners; an ex-Cub who became a jazz trumpeter; and more
It’s election day here in Chicago–again! And the best game in town… actually isn’t in town. It’s up north. Between the Packers, Scott Walker, and Paul Ryan, Wisconsinites are living in interesting times.
Sixteen years ago, Derrick Lemon watched as his brother was dropped out a window of the Ida B. Wells housing complex. Today, at the age of 24, Lemon was sentenced to 71 years in prison for shooting a man in 2006.
Alderman Danny Solis, in a runoff tomorrow for the 25th Ward seat, sent out a press release today announcing that he had drafted an anti-lead pollution ordinance requiring any “facility emitting lead at levels that are higher than… EPA standards… [to] cease operations immediately.” The release states that “new information” about “high lead levels” impacting a Pilsen elementary school prompted him to act…
Today the court of appeals for the federal circuit court is hearing arguments in the Myriad gene patent case, aka Association for Molecular Pathology v. U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. It’s the latest development in the attempt to patent the human body, a long story that’s touched the lives of Chicagoans and won’t go away any time soon.
THE TIPPING POINT: This season the soft-spoken Chicago native has blossomed into one of the most dazzling basketball players on the planet. Here’s how he did it
Some things to get you through the weekend, like Ben Joravsky’s guide to aldermanic runoffs, the Trib’s guide to Chicago sandwiches, tours of Miller House, and more.
It’s been a quiet couple months for city and state politics, but things are starting to get interesting: two federal investigations, rumblings from Michael Madigan about the pre-paid college tuition program, and the city inspector general’s report on truck drivers.
The local starchtect discusses “Reveal,” the new monograph about Studio Gang, as the Gang-designed Ford Calumet Environmental Center hangs in the balance. Alternately, Lisa Madigan appears on the Interview Show tonight at the Hideout.
