THE OBAMA WAY: Republicans may enjoy calling the president a typical Chicago politician. But Rick Perlstein argues that Obama isn’t Chicago enough—and that’s why he faces such a tough contest on November 6. Read more
List Price: $2.599 million The Property: In the years just after the Great Chicago Fire—whose 141st anniversary is Monday—the prolific architect Edward Burling put up numerous buildings in the city, including, in 1875, a string of ten row houses on the Lincoln Park street that now bears his name... Read more
The locations of gang violence can be predictable, so much that UCLA scientists have modeled it with decades-old territorial models. But what happens when the gangs, and their territory, break down? Read more
Four Questions for Nathan SearsSears, the chef de cuisine at Vie in Western Springs, announced this past week that he plans a spring opening... Read more
For the final game of a 100-loss season, against the worst team in baseball, the Cubs send out the scrubs... and a couple prospects whose 2012 struggles leave hard questions for 2013. Read more
A year after one of his worst seasons as a pro, one of the last remaining Cubs veterans has turned in a bounce-back season, driving in a ton of runs and anchoring a young team. What's behind Soriano's improvement? Read more
The CPD's top cop came out of Newark and New York as a disciple of William Bratton and the broken-windows theory of criminology. In Chicago, McCarthy has embraced two more approaches to combat the city's very different problems: social networks and legitimacy, under the influence of two Chicago-trained sociologists. Read more
