Gary's new mayor, Karen Freeman-Wilson; the curious case of Chicago hip-hop star/cult favorite Chief Keef; Alan Turing's undersung legacy in the field of biology; and more. Read more
Digging into the data from which we built the home-values charts in the April issue of Chicago, I’ve found a dozen city neighborhoods or suburbs showing signs that they’ve hit bottom and may be on the way back up... Read more
Mitt Romney's dog problem; Obama's Muslim problem; Republicans' Illinois problem; Chicago's voting problem; Derrick Smith's FBI problem; and more from election day. Read more
Chicago's startup tech scene gets some new national attention thanks to the incubator 1871, but it wouldn't be a Trend without someone from not-flyover country giving us the what-for. Read more
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Art from Evanston asks what one should do with a deceased relative’s home with a reverse mortgage. Read more
Prepping for Prom
For the first time ever, Westfield Old Orchard (westfield.com/oldorchard) joins forces with the Glass Slipper Project (glassslipperproject.org), a nonprofit that gives away prom dresses and accessories to local high school students to help them celebrate in style... Read more
It’s common knowledge that two of Chicago’s wealthiest families—the Crowns and the Pritzkers—are staunch Obama supporters, so it surprised me to read earlier this year that Susan Crown, 53, was supporting Mitt Romney for president. I wondered: Why isn’t she in the Obama camp like her older brother, Jim, president of Henry Crown & Co.?... Read more
