Northwest Indiana Man Re-creates Medieval Torture Devices
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U of C Doc Melissa Gilliam Fights Teen Pregnancies
BLOCKING THE BABY BUMP: With a high-tech assist from local high schoolers, Dr. Melissa Gilliam hopes to change attitudes about contraception and reduce the large number of teenage pregnancies
Pinup Calendar Maker Alexis Finch on the 2011 Project
As told to Jenna Marotta Miss February “It was a frustration shared among female cyclists in Chicago. My friends and I got to talking about how we were treated at bicycle shops and also out on the street riding: Guys assumed that we didn’t know how to work on our bikes if we looked at … Read more
Nettelhorst Elementary School's Remarkable Turnaround
THE MOM BRIGADE: Nettelhorst was a failing educational backwater in Lake View when some determined moms got involved—and sparked a tremendous improvement
Brother Bill: A Look at William Daley
From our February 2005 issue: The youngest of the seven children of the late mayor Richard J. and Eleanor “Sis” Daley, William Daley has moved beyond the family’s local power base to hold major positions in government, business, and the law. Supporters and critics alike credit him with remarkable savvy and consider him a go-to talent for plotting strategy (although he insists that he and his brother–the current mayor–“don’t talk about city stuff”). Now Bill Daley is back in Chicago, with a top job at J. P. Morgan Chase and big charitable dollars to dispense. But given his record for exceeding expectations, few observers expect his shrewd moves to stop there
Has Bill Clinton Hurt Rahm Emanuel?
The news that Bill Clinton was coming to Chicago to campaign for Rahm—first reported by Politico’s Mike Allen on Christmas day and confirmed by Rahm’s campaign spokesman the following day—produced a harshly worded, almost threatening, response from Congressman Davis. Moseley Braun was silent for a day but then she chimed in angrily, calling Clinton “an outsider parachuting in to support another…
Rev. Jesse Jackson: The Davis/Moseley Braun meeting-and on the media covering the mayor’s race
As previously reported, Jesse Jackson, Sr., met Wednesday night at his Rainbow PUSH headquarters with Danny Davis and Carol Moseley Braun, the two leading African American candidates for mayor. The purpose, Jackson told me in a telephone conversation Thursday morning, was to get them talking-to jump start the dialogue about one of them dropping out to give the survivor a chance to turn the momentum that has been building for Rahm Emanuel. Jackson predicted that the two “old friends” will reach an agreement: “There’s nothing hostile or petty about their relationship….They left the meeting on good terms.”…
Danny Davis: Ministers want a single black candidate; Rev. Jesse Jackson brokering?
Congressman Danny Davis says that, at the behest of various black ministers, he and Carol Moseley Braun will meet again later today to discuss whether one of them should drop out of the race for Chicago mayor. The two longtime friends—the leading African American candidates in the contest—met on Christmas Eve to talk shop about the campaign …
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January 2011: Victoria Lautman, Nora O’Donnell, Karen Springen, Saverio Truglia
Chicagoans of the Year 2010: Rocky Wirtz, Chicago Blackhawks
Goal Tender CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS Related: PHOTO GALLERY » MORE CHICAGOANS OF THE YEAR 2009 » 2008 » 2007 » 2006 » LIST OF HONOREES » dating back to 1994 The enormity of it—the marvelously goofy, wonderfully silly, joyously cathartic insanity of it—didn’t hit Rocky Wirtz right away. As the principal owner and chairman of the Chicago … Read more