The Great AI Art Heist
A lab at the University of Chicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.
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The Next Mayor
Speculation has already begun on who might replace a beleaguered Brandon Johnson. Let’s handicap the field.
The New Face of Law and Order
Eileen O’Neill Burke was elected Cook County State’s Attorney by vowing to get tough on crime. But her approach to making Chicago safer is more nuanced than you might think.
Ranking the New Illinois State Flag Designs
It’s time to get rid of the old seal on a bedsheet.
Chrishona Hodges’s Life Sentence
At a crossroads when Chicago profiled him nine years ago, Jerryon Stevens is now in jail, awaiting trial on a murder charge. At home, his mother reckons with her son’s path — and tries to hold her fractured family together.
“We Need to Create Space for Someone in Prison to Evolve”
A new documentary, In Their Hands, examines Illinois’s parole system through one man’s story.
The Trumpiest Election
Were Trump’s stronger numbers in Chicago an indication of the city becoming more Republican?
The Day and the Hour
Should terminally ill patients be able to get help in ending their own lives? The Illinois legislature is grappling with that question.
