Top Doctors 2024

Your health is in good hands with these 1,399 Cook County physicians, nominated by their peers as the best across 70 specialties. Read more

The Indeterminate Sentence of Johnnie Veal

By Ben Austen

Who deserves to be paroled and who doesn’t? Deciding that is an imprecise process, one that grapples with our fundamental approach to incarceration, as this excerpt from the new book ‘Correction’ shows. Read more

The (Not So) Glamorous Life of a Movie Extra

By Kimberly Nelson

The author has ridden the L with George Clooney and watched Christopher Nolan direct. But it’s not always so fabulous. Read more

What You Need to Know About the Blackhawks’ New Prodigy

By Grace Perry

Chicago is positively giddy about a certain Canadian teenager moving to town. But who exactly is Connor Bedard? And can he possibly live up to the hype? Read more

When Charlie Chaplin Tramped Through Uptown

By Kathleen Rooney

Before Hollywood became Hollywood, it was here, too. Read more

How a Local Band Went Viral in Lithuania

By David McMillin

Local act Fort Frances became a one-hit wonder on the shores of the Baltic Sea. Read more

Lightfoot’s Legacy

By Edward Robert McClelland

Yes, she did not play well with others, but the departing mayor also curbed ward fiefdoms and boosted neglected neighborhoods. Read more

Five Things: It Was Leopold, Not Loeb

By Julia M. Klein

A new book on Chicago’s most famous thrill killers argues we’ve had it wrong about the mastermind. Here’s what we learned. Read more