Features Unseen Chicagoby Brittney BlairCelebrating photography from the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries, these 29 delightful but forgotten pictures, culled from dozens of collections, invoke history, beauty, emotion, and memories. Sudden Impactby Bryan SmithIn the 1969 Days of Rage, antiwar radical Brian Flanagan and city lawyer Richard Elrod collided, changing their lives and creating an … Read more
Features How Healthy Is Your Town?Chicago gathered data on 195 suburbs in 15 key categories-from water quality to street crime to cancer rates-to find the healthiest and unhealthiest towns around. Plus: Updates on Super-fund sites, medical waste incinerators, and the battle over smoking bans Can It Last?by Dennis RodkinAs Chicago takes its annual look … Read more
Over the course of 20 raucous years, J. J. Jameson became a fixture on the city’s lively poetry circuit—a loud, drunken declaimer out of central casting. So his many friends were more than a little shocked when Massachusetts police came to town this spring and arrested him. He had been active in his church, loyal to a fault, unusually talented—and his writing revealed such intimate details of his life that people on the scene thought they knew him. But they didn’t know he had been doing time for murder, and had escaped. They didn’t even know his real name.
Chicago’s North Shore hardly seems the crucible for edgy punk-pop. But with a new CD that’s already gone gold, and jam-packed concert crowds, Fall Out Boy has burst out of the suburbs (even though most of the band members still live with their parents).
Halloween spending, interest rates and getting our veggies.
Victoria Lautman talks to the author about her new work, The Painted Drum
A folksy art scene. Glorious leaf peeping. And Cornish delights for all ages.
Our kids’ world is about to get bigger. On October 20th, the new Kohl Children’s Museum of Greater Chicago opens in Glenview, adding 22,700 square feet, doubling the public space over its former Wilmette location. We checked out the Chicago area’s three most prominent museums for kids to see how they compared. Kohl Children’s Museum … Read more
Think you’re a real Wizard of Oz fan? Think again.
A men’s clothing store in Old Town takes a classic approach to service and promises to give grown-up guys a hip but decidedly polished new look.
