On Spaceship Collaborative founders Jacob and Mischa DeHart
The Threadless cofounder and his wife want to build an online community for foodies
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Our Man in London: On Louis Susman's appointment as ambassador to the U.K.
The retired Chicago businessman Louis Susman recently became the U.S. ambassador to the United Kingdom, an appointment widely regarded as the prize for his ferocious fundraising on behalf of the Obama campaign. Derided by the British press as the “vacuum cleaner,” Susman is only the most prominent example of a continuing—and questionable—American tradition
Key Obama campaign backers who were appointed ambassadors
Winners’ Row: A sample of bundlers for Obama who are now ambassadors posted abroad
The Soul of a New Building: The Salvation Army's new South Side community center building
Backed by the Kroc family fortune, the Salvation Army planned to build a huge, glorious community center here. A star-studded design competition, a dose of Chicago politics, and several injections of reality later, something quite different is about to go up
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In February’s letters: Heroin
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February 2010: Jennifer Wehunt, Amalie Drury, Carol Felsenthal, Nathan Kirkman, Chris Guillen
Why Is This Man Laughing?: A look at Chicago area car dealer Bob Rohrman
Bob Rohrman is one of the area’s largest car dealers in the midst of an epic downturn for the auto industry. He just sued a plastic surgeon for allegedly wooing away his third ex-wife. But, hey, for this irrepressible TV pitchman, the tank is always half full.
O-Book-A!: Best Obama election books of 2009
Before we get hit by the next wave of books about Obama’s first year in office—Bob Woodward, for example, has got one in the works—here’s a recap of some of the top election reads of 2009.
The True Story of the Deadly Encounter at Fort Dearborn
For nearly two centuries, the events that transpired in Chicago on August 15, 1812, had been known as the Fort Dearborn Massacre. With the dedication of a new park, the bloody encounter between 95 soldiers and settlers and some 500 Potawatomi has been recast as the Battle of Fort Dearborn. What really happened on that hot August morning in Chicago 197 years ago?
The Professor and the Prosecutor: Anita Alvarez’s office turns up the heat on David Protess’s Medill Innocence Project
The Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office provides at least two reporters a memo containing scurrilous and unsubstantiated claims about the conduct of the Northwestern University journalism professor and his students in an earlier case.