Compared to our Great Lakes neighbors, things have been pretty quiet in city and state politics, probably because Daley’s on his way out and power didn’t shift too much after the midterms. But our politics will heat up with the weather.
The mayor heads to China (again) to pitch investors on his Block 37-airport express train (again). Could Chicago get its own version of London’s Heathrow Express?
It’s not the Sweet Home Chicago ordinance, which has been pushed by affordable housing advocates. And it’s only for home buyers, not renters. But that doesn’t mean it’s bad, either.
U-TURN: For decades, undergraduates at the University of Chicago seemed to live by the ancient notion that scholars must “suffer into learning,” and over time applications and enrollment declined. As a result, school officials have worked to reinvent the place, and today Hyde Park has become a hot destination among students applying to the country’s top-tier colleges
Putting the ongoing nuclear crisis in Japan in context with the latest reports on safety, containment, and risk, including a new look at earthquake risks to nuclear power plants in the U.S.
SHOWDOWN ON GROUND ZERO: At the center of a huge 9/11 lawsuit—a $1.2 billion property damage case—is the Chicagoan Robert Clifford, one of the top aviation lawyers in the nation
Related: FOR CHICAGO LAWYER, 9/11 CASE COULD BE HIS BIGGEST YET » Though personal injury lawyers have sometimes been a target of outrage—for winning huge jury awards for supposedly minor mishaps, for example—Bob Clifford argues that certain cases have the potential to bring about needed changes. One example that he likes to cite: In 1987, … Read more
Where the first nuke was buried in Chicagoland; the first radiation poisoning, or at least the first lawsuit about radiation poisoning; police forensics, circa 1898; the early history of the stop snitchin’ code; and more
Check out our recommendations for restaurants and stores in the heart of West Town and Noble Square… and these deep cuts to go along with them.
While the political and fiscal news in Illinois remains relatively quiet, our Midwestern neighbors are taking dramatic and controversial steps to repair their budgets.
