Look at a map of the Far Southwest Side, where the neighborhoods of Beverly, Morgan Park, and Mount Greenwood meet, and you’ll see a rectangular-shaped hole. It’s Mount Greenwood Cemetery, a 79-acre graveyard that was never annexed to the City of Chicago and remains part of unincorporated Cook County. The cemetery was established in 1879, … Read more
Inside this maximum security prison, a groundbreaking program offers inmates the chance to earn a degree from one of the country’s top schools. Some will never leave these walls. Here’s why it still matters.
In this essay for Northwestern professor Alex Kotlowitz’s narrative nonfiction class, a Stateville inmate from the South Side writes about how he manages to regain a sense of control in prison.
We’ll have weather without our beloved meteorologist, but will we still have the fourth season?
Have you ever shopped for groceries at Jewels? If you have, you’re pronouncing the store’s name wrong. It’s Jewel — short for Jewel Tea Company, the name of the original business that was founded here in 1899. So why do so many Chicagoans add an s? It’s a linguistic phenomenon with stores, especially grocery stores. Kroger, Aldi, … Read more
Some of our most famous expressways and highways have notable namesakes — while others have been largely forgotten.
Architectural treasure? Taxpayer money pit? Charming fixer-upper? Spaceship? All of the above? Here’s what to know about the Googleplexing of Helmut Jahn’s opus.
