Inequality of income and safety has increased precipitously over the past few decades, driving the city's Black population down—and back to the South. Read more
Out of 100 major world cities, Chicago "exhibits the closest approximation of a single perfect grid." It's not quite the City of Light, but it befits our city. Read more
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. Read more
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. Read more
