A look back at Chess Records' house psychedelic band, led by a pre-stardom Minnie Riperton and featuring Phil Upchurch, Mitch Aliotta, and John Jeremiah, among many others. Read more
In the city's big moves on education yesterday, Malcolm X College is being reinvented to integrate with the Medical District, and Crane Tech will go through the same process. It's part of a Great Recession trend back towards an old (and Continental) idea. Read more
The state's expensive, troubled supermax prison, long a target of lawsuits and human-rights activists, would give up its small number of inmates to Pontiac as part of the governor's proposed budget cuts. Read more
New funding for BRT; public transportation is the new gay marriage, the fight over transportation funding, the decline in Illinois fuel tax revenues, and more. Read more
Learning how the sausage is made can turn your stomach, more so when you can see the reconstituted meat bits. Which may put people off their appetite for politics. Read more
A poll of economists from the University of Chicago shows near-unanimous support for the idea that the stimulus increased employment. Now, about those long-term costs.... Read more
Is Illinois still really corrupt? Is Chicago still really segregated? It depends on who you ask, and how they decide to write their headlines. Read more
Luftwerk's installation art project, a collaboration with Owen Clayton Condon of Third Coast Percussion, completes its run in the park tonight from 6 to 9 pm. Read more
The state is way behind on its Medicaid bills, and facing a hugely expensive backlog, as it has periodically over the past couple decades. The state doesn't have a lot of options for cutting back on its Medicaid spending, but there are a couple areas where substantial progress could be made. Read more
