Mongo in Love

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

Remembering the Family Drama of the Bears-McCaskey Era

In 1999, after the Bears failed to make the playoffs for the fourth straight year, the president was fired by his mother, Virginia McCaskey, the team’s principal owner. Read more

From the Vault: Before Girl & the Goat

By Phoebe Mogharei

Ten years ago, there was just the burgeoning chef and a whole lot of pressure. Read more

Remembering Chicago's Greatest Party-Crasher

By Phoebe Mogharei

Getting to know the most social guy nobody invited to the party Read more

When a Naperville Man Helped Expose Nazi-Collaborating France

By Phoebe Mogharei

From the vault: Isaac Levendel's search for his mother’s fate unearthed buried documentation of the Holocaust. Read more

When Hillary Clinton Was a Teenage Republican

By Phoebe Mogharei

A look at her northwest suburban origins from our September 1994 issue Read more

From the Vault: Tragic Bond

By Phoebe Mogharei

Neither a young NFL linebacker nor his hometown best friend would survive a night of revelry in Houston. Read more

Revisiting a Made-for-Netflix Scandal on the North Shore

By Phoebe Mogharei

When a prominent lawyer opened up his bank account to a charming young man, his wife put her foot down. Then she paid the ultimate price. Read more

From 1994: Steve Albini and the Life of the Iconoclast

By Phoebe Mogharei

On the 25th anniversary of Kurt Cobain’s death, we revisit a profile of the producer of Nirvana’s final record. Read more

In 1997, We Profiled Ed Burke. He Was in Trouble Then, Too

By Phoebe Mogharei

Long before his recent indictment, the alderman looked poised to go down in a different scandal. Read more

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