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What Did We Learn from Amazon's List of HQ2 Finalists?
By Whet Moser
The company doesn't want to be in the Bay Area, but aside from that, the crowd favorites are still in play—along with a couple surprising but logical outliers. Read more
Why Field Notes Have Remained Curiously Addictive for a Decade
By Whet Moser
A decade ago, Chicago-based Coudal Partners turned a designer's holiday gift of small handmade notebooks into an uber-popular business. Read more
Should Sears Become a "Tech" Company? They Already Tried That
By Whet Moser
The retailing giant was early to the internet with the Prodigy service. It lost a lot of money and its early lead to AOL, but it got a lot right about the internet we live on today. Read more
How the Sears Catalog Captures a Time When Toys Were Less Pink
By Whet Moser
Toys are more gendered than they've ever been—even more than a half century ago, when gender discrimination was rampant. Read more
The "606 Effect" on Housing Prices Is Real, and Threatens to Displace Residents
By Whet Moser
Meanwhile, Englewood and West Englewood properties have lost value as the housing crisis lingers on in that pocket of the South Side. Read more
With Bitcoin Futures, Chicago Enters One of the World's Most Interesting Economic Experiments
By Whet Moser
The city is ground zero for the growth of a new currency. No one knows what's going to happen—and most people probably still don't know what Bitcoin is—but it'll be fascinating to watch. Read more
French Pastry School Fears Closure If City Pushes It Out of Loop Location
By Mauricio Peña
The school contends that it holds a "formal collaboration agreement" to occupy the building through January 2019, but the city disagrees. Read more
This College Student Stays Up All Night Literally Picking Up Your Garbage
By Patty Wetli
Liam Donnelly founded WasteNot Compost at the age of 15. Now he balances his course load with nights spent biking around and picking up compost containers. Read more
Is Illinois Promising to Give Amazon All Its Workers' Salaries for a Headquarters?
By Whet Moser
Not really, no. What we're offering the company is pretty straightforward, but how we think and talk about that is anything but. Read more
Could Elon Musk Make Money Off a Blue Line Express Train?
By Whet Moser
London's private airport express train works, but Chicago presents a riskier scenario. Read more
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