How Stephen A. Douglas Put Chicago On the Map (and Ruined His Career)
Most famous for getting beat by Abraham Lincoln, the senator’s other local legacy is making Chicago the railroad hub of America—at immense cost.
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Why the Classic Chicago Accent is Disappearing
Integration, and the cultural changes that come with it, have changed the way Chicagoans (and Michiganders, and Upstate New Yorkers) talk.
What It’s Like to Get a $299 Massage
In which our Experimentalist tries a lymphatic drainage treatment that promises to reshape her body.
9 Stereotypes About Chicago That Are No Longer True
We don’t drink Old Style, eat that deep dish, slaughter hogs, or battle the wind like the rest of the world thinks.
How Sharone R. Mitchell Jr. Hopes to Fix a Broken Justice System
The new Cook County public defender on prioritizing reform
Candace Parker Comes Home
After 13 storied seasons in Los Angeles, the two-time WNBA MVP and former Naperville Central star joins the Chicago Sky. She brings with her some hard-won wisdom.
‘Revolutionary Hillbilly’ Hy Thurman on His New Memoir
A Tennessee native, Thurman co-founded the Young Patriots, a group of poor white Appalachian migrants that organized in Uptown in the 1960s, became part of the original Rainbow Coalition, and changed politics in Chicago forever.
I Tried a Power Plate Workout and Didn’t Fall Off
Can working out on a vibrating platform make me as fit as a Russian cosmonaut?
Jesús “Chuy” García
The U.S. representative, 65, on Adam Toledo’s death, growing up in Mexico, and running for mayor
Is Chicago Really in the ‘Midwest’?
Chicago was squeezed into Illinois to make it more Northern. It’s now the capital of the Midwest, but culturally, call it a Great Lakes state.