Sixteen muscly maids put up quite a fight at the Chicago League of Lady Arm Wrestlers’ (CLLAW) ninth annual event this Friday at Joe’s Bar on the Near North Side... Read more
For Rochester, New York public schools chief Jean-Claude Brizard, it's out of the frying pan, into the fire, as he prepares to face the same issues of education reform that caused controversy in his prior job. Read more
After a nightmarish two years in Washington, former U.S. Senator Roland Burris is settling back into life in Illinois, trying to rebuild his reputation and retire an $800,000 debt from a legal battle to keep his Senate seat. Still, he told me he does not regret accepting the position from former Gov. Rod Blagojevich, whose retrial on corruption charges... Read more
List Price: $1,849,900 Sale Price: $1,575,000 The Property: Five years ago, this 7,000-square-foot townhouse in a former industrial section of Chicago’s River North neighborhood sold for $3 million... Read more
Paul Bloom on how pleasure works; Mike Dean (Kanye's engineer) on technology and music; and Jim Coudal, John Gruber, and Michael Lopp on the writing process. Read more
Remembering Robert Kurson's "Heavy," a profile of Robert Earl Hughes: the Fishhook, Illinois, native enshrined forever in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's fattest man. Read more
Everyone has a story, as we writers relish pointing out. But when I stopped by Wrigleyville’s longtime reggae club The Wild Hare last night to interview the owner, Zeleke Gessesse, about why he’s closing the place on May 15th after 25 years, I found myself in the presence of someone with a Story—capital S, plus italics... Read more
