What we didn’t know about the housing bubble hurt us—but the lessons from the financial crisis could save us from the growing student-loan problem. Read more
Chicago has a lot of high school dropouts—but there are fewer "dropout factories" than you might think. And the nation can learn from this city's approach to the problem. Read more
See the Uber battle from a cabbie’s point of view, join Nate Silver in Chicago on his national burrito quest, hear how Cook County Jail deals with handmade weapons, and more. Read more
A new study finds the Milwaukee and Dearborn bike lanes are popular—but to anyone not on a bike, they seem more dangerous here than they do in other cities. Read more
The Cubs are even worse than expected for the third straight year. They're bad—but they actually play well enough to have a better record than this. Here are the stats of a team on a terrible run of bad luck. Read more
The city ranks well in a new survey, thanks to the wonderful network of parks in Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago. We'd have done even better if politics hadn't killed so many other good ideas. Read more
Read stories on the Cubs’ last link to a World Series win, Chicago’s storyteller Stuart Dybek, a moment of local violence caught by an NPR reporter, and more. Read more
The writer takes on the media's ignorance of history, why Chicago is an ideal case study for discrimination, and how uncomfortable it is to undo policies that were racist by design. Read more
Segregationist policies divided Chicago—and America. Those ideas impacted blacks as well as "probationary whites," setting the stage for stories like "The Case for Reparations" today. Read more
Chicago’s history of housing segregation in the national spotlight, a solution for the city’s potholes, the man behind the city’s big Federal drug busts, and more. Read more
