What Rahm Needs to Know About the Taxi Industry
One former cabby berates the mayor about the city’s short-sighted taxi policies.
Contributors: Dmitry Samarov
Tony Fitzpatrick, Artist
Dmitry Samarov on the gregarious artist he picked up in his cab four years ago: “Life around Tony was rarely dull…. I’ve never known anyone better suited to being the center of attention.”
Bill Savage, Writer and Editor
Dmitry Samarov met his future editor when the Northwestern prof bought one of the artist’s paintings in 2001. Here, more on Savage, an avid cyclist and scholar of Chicago history
Nick Digilio, Radio Man
Dmitry Samarov on his unlikely friendship with the WGN radio host
Noah Vaughn, Photographer
Dmitry Samarov introduces us to photographer Noah Vaughn, whom the writer met 20 years ago at the School of the Art Institute. Vaughn, writes Samarov, “documents the crumbling, abandoned parts of the city without making a fetish of them. And that is no small feat.”