One thousand picnickers donned their chicest summer whites and descended on the Art Institute of Chicago’s South Lawn Friday night for Dîner en Blanc, a flash mob-style BYO picnic... Read more
List Price: $879,000 Sale Price: $904,000 The Property: Formerly filled with one of Chicago’s finest collections of 20th-century art, this stone-and-stucco house in Oak Park had deteriorated so much in recent years that the real-estate agent who sold it at foreclosure on August 16 describes it as “destroyed inside...” Read more
James F. Short, Jr., one of the many sociologists in the University of Chicago's tradition of gang research, did the first major work of his career as the Black P Stones and Vice Lords were born. Read more
A short but detailed look at trauma care during Chicago's violent summer, where the number of patients has risen and the difference between a shooting and a homicide can be a matter of time and luck. Read more
The director talks to Kartemquin Films's Justine Nagan about the new movie, his infamous "dolly shot," Muhammad Ali, his teenage children, and more. Listen to our podcast and read the highlights. Read more
In 1907, Chicago's meatpacking industry was infamous after Upton Sinclair's muckraking masterpiece. And the panoramic photographers of Geo. Lawrence and Co. were there to capture the process. Read more
