Looking for Mr. Mr. Fungi
The distinctive graffiti tag seemed to be plastered all over the city. But who was responsible? The answer to that was not so easy to find.
Custom Placements: City Life Lead
Some of the Best Pro Athletes to Hail From the Chicago Area
The Chicago area has produced more professional athletes than any city in the U.S. — a total of 1,061. That’s 494 football players, 387 baseball players, 155 basketball players, and 25 hockey players. Los Angeles only has 818, New York 546. We don’t have an explanation for why Chicago is the most athletic city in … Read more
Pool Hall Wisdom
Long before he wrote for shows like Chicago Fire and Chicago P.D., the author got some life-altering advice from a hustler named Banks.
Mr. T in Lake Forest and Woodward in Wheaton: Famous Folks Who Lived in the Burbs
Wherever you live in the Chicago area, someone famous once lived there, too. Here’s a list of the best known — or at least the most interesting — people to have inhabited our suburbs.
39 Reasons to Love Winter in Chicago
Staycations! Snowshoeing! Soup! Here’s why we cherish the city’s most notorious season.
A New Survey Asks Chicagoans: What’s Your Neighborhood?
“The first step of elevating a neighborhood as being important is naming it and identifying it and thinking of it as a real place.”
Michelle T. Boone
The Poetry Foundation president, 62, on skeptics, Rahm Emanuel, and an old TV show
The Indeterminate Sentence of Johnnie Veal
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.