Reviews of And So It Goes, a recent biography of Kurt Vonnegut, and the Library of America's first collection of the author's works, plus a look at how Chicago shaped the famous novelist. Read more
Hannah lost a tooth the other day, her fourth. In our home, the Tooth Fairy has a grand tradition of leaving these big fancy notes of congratulation—in addition to the money—in exchange for the tooth under the pillow. So that’s what the Tooth Fairy did, even though it was 11 p.m. and he had worked a long day and was tired, and he still had to clean the kitchen and take out the recycling... Read more
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The Property: Of the five rental homes in Glencoe that Frank Lloyd Wright built for his attorney, Sherman Booth, the Charles R. Perry House is the only one with a pagoda flourish on the façade, a design element inspired by the architect’s time in Japan... Read more
Chicago's storied tradition of turning the river a crazed day-glo nuclear green was the inadvertent result of cleaning up the river for the 1960s construction boom, and the brainstorm of one of Mayor Daley's powerful friends. Read more
TAL pulls its most popular episode podcast—and devotes this week's show to the aftermath—after fabrications by monologuist Mike Daisey are revealed by a Marketplace reporter. Read more
The proposal for the Chicago Infrastructure Trust, recently presented to City Council, is making news as America's first civic infrastructure bank. But it's a familiar idea overseas, as a response to familiar fiscal crises. Read more
