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.
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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.
On Otis McDonald and his lawsuit challenging Chicago's 1982 handgun ban
Otis McDonald sued for the right to own a handgun in Chicago, and the Supreme Court ruled in his favor on June 28. Read his story, from our archives
Eyewitness Account: Emmett Till’s cousin Simeon Wright seeks to set the record straight
Simeon Wright visits his cousin Emmett Till’s grave at Burr Oak Cemetery. It’s achingly difficult to dig up what you have spent a lifetime trying to push down. In recent years, Simeon Wright has moved slowly, steadily, inching his way toward revelation. He has faced what he wanted to put behind him, recalling the events … Read more
Top Doctors in Chicago: The best MDs in 57 specialties
In cooperation with Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., we present 347 of the area’s best physicians in 57 different medical specialties.
Action Figures: Chicagoans of the Year 2009
GRAHM BALKANY Gropius in Chicago Coalition RAMSEY LEWIS Proclamation of Hope / Songs from the Heart SAM HARRIS Illinois Holocaust Museum & Education Center ANNETTE NANCE-HOLT & RONALD HOLT Purpose Over Pain SARA FOSZCZ Main Stay Therapeutic Riding Program There are people who talk about doing, and then there are people who get things done. … Read more
O Phase: Living Oprah documents Robyn Okrant’s year of practicing Winfrey’s advice
In 2008, Robyn Okrant, a Lincoln Square yoga instructor, embarked on a yearlong quest to do everything Oprah Winfrey advised. The project cost her more than $4,700 and 1,200 hours of unwavering obedience to Oprah’s mantra, “Live your best life.” Okrant’s blog, livingoprah.com, documented the whole project. Her new memoir, Living Oprah (Center Street; $24.99), … Read more
Ice Folly: Facing middle age and an expanding belly, Chicago mag writer tries figure skating
A personal odyssey from flailing rail-clutcher to competitive champ
I ? NY: Chicago-versus-New York comparisons are lame, but I can't help myself
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