Ad Categories: City Life
How Pidgeon Pagonis Helped End Intersex Surgeries at Lurie
The cofounder of the Intersex Justice Project on giving kids a choice
“You Are Feeling Very, Very Hungry…”
In which our Experimentalist gets hypnotized — again.
The Surprising Calm of Basket-Weaving
Natalie Boyet of the Chicago Weaving School walks us through the therapeutic process.
Learn Something New
Make a documentary. Build your own guitar. Cook with an award-winning chef. Write a novel. These 33 adult education classes will expand your horizons and teach you skills you can use for the rest of your life.
Anthropologist of the Middle Class
Writer Eula Biss, now an artist-in-residence at Northwestern, examines how capitalism makes everyone feel lousy.
Are People Really Leaving Downtown?
Ald. Brian Hopkins warned of a mass exodus following looting on Michigan Avenue. But it may take more for people to flee the utopia built by Mayors Rahm Emanuel and Richard M. Daley.
A Two-Minute Guide to the Salt Creek Dam Conflict
Environmentalists want to improve biodiversity in Oak Brook. A historic mill is trying to stop them. What a quaint throwback to when feuds didn’t involve facemasks!
Walking Chicago With Robert Loerzel
A new book offers guides to 35 urban trails around the city. We walked the author’s hometown route.