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Pool Hall Wisdom

December 19, 2023December 5, 2023 by Lynette Smith
A pool table

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.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Chicago Stories, City Life

Mr. T in Lake Forest and Woodward in Wheaton: Famous Folks Who Lived in the Burbs

December 1, 2023 by Sarah Steimer

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.

Categories City Life Tags City Life

39 Reasons to Love Winter in Chicago

December 11, 2023November 28, 2023 by Chicago Magazine

Staycations! Snowshoeing! Soup! Here’s why we cherish the city’s most notorious season.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags City Life

A New Survey Asks Chicagoans: What’s Your Neighborhood?

November 20, 2023 by Sarah Steimer

“The first step of elevating a neighborhood as being important is naming it and identifying it and thinking of it as a real place.”

Categories City Life Tags City Life

Listen Early: Crooked City Episode 8

November 10, 2023 by Sarah Steimer

How well did anyone really know Rita Crundwell?

Categories City Life Tags City Life

Michelle T. Boone

November 7, 2023November 7, 2023 by Lynette Smith
Michelle T. Boone illustration

The Poetry Foundation president, 62, on skeptics, Rahm Emanuel, and an old TV show

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags Backroom, City Life

The Indeterminate Sentence of Johnnie Veal

December 5, 2023November 7, 2023 by Lynette Smith
"The Indeterminate Sentence of Johnnie Veal" topper

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.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags City Life, Long Reads

Pilsen

December 15, 2023November 3, 2023 by Lynette Smith
‘Camino al Mictlan,’ by Juan Carlos Torres Gonzalez and Dr. Pedro Ibarra Mosqueda, displayed at the National Museum of Mexican Art in 2018.

TikTok trumpeting sensation Daniel Flores offers three things to experience in his hood.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags City Life, My Neighborhood

Listen Early: Crooked City Episode 7

November 8, 2023November 3, 2023 by Sarah Steimer

In this week’s episode, Rita receives her sentencing, and the city goes after its auditing firm.

Categories City Life Tags City Life

The Last Fight of Wilfred Benítez

November 7, 2023October 30, 2023 by Lynette Smith
Wilfred Benítez and his sister Yvonne

Once the pride of Puerto Rico, the ailing boxing great is now fully dependent on the sister who watches over him in their Humboldt Park apartment.

Categories Chicago Magazine Tags City Life, Long Reads
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