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.
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.
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.
Staycations! Snowshoeing! Soup! Here’s why we cherish the city’s most notorious season.
“The first step of elevating a neighborhood as being important is naming it and identifying it and thinking of it as a real place.”
The Poetry Foundation president, 62, on skeptics, Rahm Emanuel, and an old TV show
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.
In this week’s episode, Rita receives her sentencing, and the city goes after its auditing firm.
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.