In the wake of the WikiLeaks document dump and the ensuing media frenzy, I wondered what I would find on Obama’s diplomatic appointees from Chicago. Of the four local Obama campaign donors who were rewarded with cushy ambassadorships—banker Louis Susman to England, lawyer David Jacobson to Canada, TV producer Charles Rivkin to France…
Forty memorable covers: the good, the bad, and the straight-up creepy
OH, YES, WE DID: Naked models, breakout moments, rampant rats: In 40 years, we’ve covered it all
When Rahm Emanuel, Carol Moseley Braun, and Danny Davis officially announced their candidacies earlier this month, there was something of letdown about it all—nothing much new in what they said or whom they introduced as members of their teams. The one surprise was Democratic state Sen. James Meeks. He was introduced by Andy McKenna, Jr., the former head of the Republican Party in Illinois and a failed candidate in…
December 2010: We celebrate our 40th anniversary!
Pilsen filmmaker Esaú Meléndez When 15-year-old Esaú Meléndez joined his family in Chicago two decades ago, thoughts of a life beyond the borders of his Bucktown neighborhood were as far off as the city—Mexico City—he had left behind. “I basically was in survival mode,” Meléndez, now 35, recalls. “I didn’t really think about opportunities … Read more
“I don’t think I’ve ever been to the City Hall press room,” says Ben Joravsky over coffee and a bagel at a North Side Starbucks. “I don’t even have a press pass.” Mind you, if you’ve followed Joravsky’s work in the Chicago Reader over the past 25 years, you know that he is something of … Read more
For more of our favorite shots of Elston Avenue from our local photographers, launch the gallery » Related: PHOTO GALLERY » Local photographers Chris Strong, Carlos Javier Ortiz, and Jeremy Bolen spent a few days this fall capturing Elston Avenue. There’s a stretch of Elston Avenue between Chicago and Armitage that makes me swoon … Read more
This past July, we put out a call for entries for our Undiscovered Chicago photo contest. Hundreds of entries poured in, and we found our winner in Art Fox, a 63-year-old West Loop resident. His entry appears in our 40th anniversary special issue, but we also wanted to feature nine other finalists whose shots captured … Read more
Why we wouldn’t want to live anywhere else
