A girl was killed by a bus in 2011. Now, the bus company will pay a $6.75 million settlement to the family—including a sister who has spent years tending a memorial at the site of the accident. Read more
Plus: could Illinois eliminate the school-bus mandate?; how to remake the Chicago region, starting with sustainable infrastructure; more questions about the Chicago Infrastructure Trust; and more Read more
In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said, “to create a form of poetical drama played by one company, all of whom could ride in one taxicab and carry their stage property on the roof...” Read more
Recent comments suggest that Chicago's top cop could be amenable to softening the city's approach to policing low-level possession. It would also be another bad-behavior-based revenue stream, which are becoming an increasing part of the city's shaky finances. Read more
List Price: $1.375 million Sale Price: $1.375 million The Property: This 11-room Bannockburn home, which sold at foreclosure on September 30th, was rented for a year by Orlando Pace, the onetime offensive tackle for the Chicago Bears... Read more
Gay, black, and a descendant of slaves, the Tony-winning choreographer Bill T. Jones mined his complex feelings about Abraham Lincoln to create a capstone dance for the Ravinia Festival Read more
