A Cause for Fun
When Chicago and Shedd Aquarium teamed up to fete the magazine’s 2008 Green Awards honorees, ideas about sustainability—and “Be Greenie-tinis”—flowed.
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Contributors
Bryan Smith, Tyllie Barbosa, Christina Zerkis, Dan Winters, Andrew Schroedter, Brendan Reilly, Miriam Gottfried
Feedback
In this month’s letters: charter schools, military intelligence, stories, and Bill Ayers
Beg Business
Nominations for the inaugural class of the Panhandler Hall of Fame
Disparity Rising
Over the last decade, incomes adjusted for inflation are flat or down for the poorest and up-up-up for the richest—especially in Illinois.
Witness at Haditha
When a deadly roadside bomb ripped through a convoy of U.S. marines in Haditha, Iraq, the violent American response left 24 Iraqi civilians dead. In his first public comments on the incident, a marine sergeant from Chicago describes the terrible things he saw—and did—that day in November 2005. His account bolsters the government’s case against his squad leader and friend—that the carnage was a massacre of innocents
The Finest Thing
It seemed an obvious question when the quadriplegic man came to the emergency room at County Hospital. The answer revealed a wonder of pain, sacrifice, and heroism. His doctor tells the story.
The Naturals
Don’t hate them because they’re beautiful. These 20 singles—a top table-tennis player, a nightlife impresario, and a gallery owner among them—are smart and talented, too.
Friends—With Benefits?
A new documentary establishes Jane Addams and her close friend, Mary Rozet Smith, as gay icons. Does it go too far?
Day of Pigs
Many photo editors get to travel to the likes of Paris and Milan for glamorous fashion shoots. Given the local nature of this magazine, I find that most of my travels for work often are decidedly unglamorous. In early April, I donned pigtails, galoshes, and my “I Support Organic Farmers” T-shirt and headed out to a farm near LaGrange, Indiana. Photographer Kevin Banna, his assistants Bjorn Kavanaugh and Stevie Rischow, and I spent a day with farmer Greg Gunthorp and his pigs (See “Hello, Beautiful!” from our June issue)…