Key Obama campaign backers who were appointed ambassadors
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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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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.
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