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
Chicago Is Now Better Educated Than Its Suburbs By Whet Moser A flood of college graduates has made Chicago one of the best-educated cities in America, but an unequal one as well. Read more
How Chicago Gave America Its Time Zones By Whet Moser Until 1883, the country was a chaos of local times. Then, in one week, almost everyone in America was on the same clock. Read more
Chicago's Last Manual Elevator By Yana Kunichoff Automation be damned. There's something beautiful about seeing the inner workings of a people mover. Read more
The Best Day of 2017 Will Be December 31 By Tim Schulte Bid farewell to a truly terrible year. Read more
Best of 2017: The Chicago Architecture Twitter Accounts That Kept Me Sane By Whet Moser Four ways of looking at Chicago brought urban beauty to my screen this year. Read more
Best of 2017: Our Top Stories at Chicago Magazine By Bettina Chang From segregation to Instagram feuds, here are the stories that you read most in 2017. Read more
Best of 2017: Chicago's Year in Headlines, by ShowYouSuck By DS Shin & ShowYouSuck Rapper ShowYouSuck walks us back through the biggest local stories of 2017. Read more
A Year of Grieving Publicly By Deborah Shapiro After Anjali Pinto’s husband died suddenly at age 30, the photographer didn’t turn inward. She turned to Instagram. Read more
