Fifty-five years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment on the West Side. He would leave not quite a year later, having learned a frustrating lesson: He could expose the city’s gaping racial wounds, but he could not heal them.
Illinois isn’t the only state with the problem, but it can breed bad government.
We may consider Obama a product of Chicago, but he’s as much of the city as he is of Hawaii, New York, or Harvard.
A new book from the Chicago lawyer re-imagines American government in a way that is just, fair, and Constitutional.
Chicago has played host for more national political conventions than any other city, but now it’s passed over in favor of swing states.
Twenty years ago this month, Peter Braxton was one of the first military pilots in the air over the burning twin towers. It was his first day on the job, and this is his story.
Unlike his 2008 trial in Chicago, R. Kelly’s alleged victims are willing to testify in Brooklyn — including one young groupie who attended the Cook County proceedings before being targeted herself.
The state’s legislators are too far from Chicago for the city’s inhabitants to really care, giving city leaders more power and Downstate politicians more room to hide.
A decade ago, his mother took him out of school for a three-day spree. Afterward, she killed herself. And the boy disappeared.
