A Tennessee native, Thurman co-founded the Young Patriots, a group of poor white Appalachian migrants that organized in Uptown in the 1960s, became part of the original Rainbow Coalition, and changed politics in Chicago forever. Read more
Chicago was squeezed into Illinois to make it more Northern. It's now the capital of the Midwest, but culturally, call it a Great Lakes state. Read more
As the reigning wild Bear and the star of bad-taste TV, Steve McMichael is on a tear. But he still takes time to hem a dress for his beauty-queen wife, Debra. Read more
It may not be as long (or as mountainous) as the Appalachian and Pacific Crest Trails, but the 200-mile Outerbelt Route, established in 2018, is the city’s own bucket-list megahike. Here’s a plan for tackling it in 19 days. Read more
