In Streetwise Chicago, the 1988 definitive guide to the origins of our city street names, authors Don Hayner and Tom McNamee came up mostly empty on Division: “There seems to be no satisfactory explanation for how this street got its name, but one story is that it was so named because it divides Goose Island, … Read more
Our bike ride continues down the path, from Soldier Field to South Shore Drive, with stops at a prairie and Promontory Point.
The architect, 74, on the Chicago Riverwalk, why design matters, and the joy of being pushy
We bike along the path’s humble beginnings in Edgewater, past a bird sanctuary and old-school bait shop, to its flashy stop along Navy Pier.
The foxes who took up residence in Lurie Garden and the peregrine falcon who dive-bombed downtown pedestrians to protect her ledge-nesting chicks are just the latest critters to enthrall us.
In a time before cell phones, a call required a few letters and numbers that directed your call to the right neighborhood.
Perhaps Timothy Beach Blackstone was motivated by competitiveness with fellow industrialist Andrew Carnegie, or by civic boosterism, but he believed a library should be a work of art in itself.
Places like Bricktown, Pacific Junction, and Whiskey Point now only exist on internet maps.
Phaedra Darwish, a Palestinian-American dance instructor, wanted to bring the Middle East back to its old neighborhood of Chicago Lawn for a day.
One pastor’s Monday night ritual that began amid the mayhem following George Floyd’s death continues as a salve for violence.
