Folk-Rock's Troublemaker Lissie Returns Home to Play Lollapalooza

By Selena Fragassi

GROUNDED FOR LIFE: The singer talks about her musical influences, growing up in Rock Island, and more Read more

Lolla 2011 Acts, Live in Concert

Get yourself in the festival mood with videos of some artists who will be performing at Grant Park this weekend. Read more

The Dismal Science: Unemployment Rates, Suicide, and Traffic Deaths

By Whet Moser

Two studies, one by the CDC and another by a Loyola prof, find that suicide rates correlate with U.S. unemployment rates and mass layoffs, respectively. A third has similar findings for Europe, but also suggests traffic fatalities decrease during times of economic hardship, which may explain local trends. Read more

The Morning After: Randy Hultgren Discusses His 'No' Vote on Debt Ceiling

By Carol Felsenthal

While Rep. Randy Hultgren thinks Speaker John Boehner and his lieutenants did a masterful job in this messy debt-ceiling debate, in the end, the freshman Republican congressman didn’t vote Boehner’s way—he was one of five members of the Illinois delegation who voted “no” on the legislation... Read more

One Hoarder’s Last Hope: Asking a Stranger to Move In

By Jeff Ruby

1-800-CLUTTER-BUST: Attention hoarders, pack rats, nostalgists: Help is here, and she's coming to live with you. Read more

Half of Chicago Traffic Aides Kicked to the Curb

By Whet Moser

The ranks of the city's TMA take about a fifty-percent cut. It's a dangerous job and a scorned position, but is it worth the money? No one seems to think so, but no one seems to know, either. Read more

Local Boutiques Unite via New Online Shop

By Bridget Maiellaro

Sales Only
Get ready for some competition, eBay and Amazon. Lesley Tweedie, owner of Roscoe Village Bikes, recently launched an online marketplace of sale-only items from independent boutiques. Appropriately named Little Independent (littleindependent.com), the site is dedicated to helping shop owners better market their hard-to-sell items... Read more

Five Best Things to Do in August

By Jennifer Wehunt

POCKET GUIDE: A cultural short-list for August, in order of buzz Read more

So Long, Olin: A Kreutz, Er, Sayonara

By Whet Moser

The Bears' veteran center is a surprise off-season departure, given the mere half-million-dollar gap between the two parties, and the Chicago football world is shocked. But something on the Bears' O-line has to change. Read more

Historical Best of Chicago: Fear and Loathing in 19th-Century Chicago

By Whet Moser

Poverty tourism, opium-smoking, prison museums, panoramas of suffering, and other sordid entertainments for Chicago tourists at the end of a century. Read more

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