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Chicago Isn’t Just Segregated, It Basically Invented Modern Segregation
By Whet Moser
The Great Migration happened right around the time powerful Chicago interests found ways to separate people of different races. Read more
Happy 100th Birthday to the Best Damn City Flag Ever
By John Hardberger
Here are six things you probably didn't know about Chicago's stars and stripes. Read more
Chicago Has Struggled to Build Mixed-Income Housing for 50 Years
By Whet Moser
It's been the CHA's goal since long before the Plan for Transformation, but resistance and mismanagement have dogged it since the 1960s. Read more
Why You Should Eat Like the Ancient Assyrians Ate
By Sarah Conway
Assyrian Kitchen’s founder shares lessons from the world’s oldest cookbook and other stories from ancient Mesopotamia. Read more
RIP Chuck Berry: The Chicago Sound of "Johnny B. Goode"
By Whet Moser
Berry brought a cosmopolitan big-band sound to Chicago from St. Louis, paired it with Chicago noise and backbeat at Chess, and became a star. Read more
How Irish Immigrants Got By in 1950s Chicago
By Whet Moser
The United States was a land of opportunity, with plentiful jobs at decent wages. But maybe most important were the reasonable rents. Read more
Which Chicago Neighborhoods Have the Most 'Character'?
By Whet Moser
The National Trust for Historic Preservation mapped Chicago and found a lot of it on the Near North and Northwest sides. But it might be at risk. Read more
Unlike Trump, America Is Kicking Its Well-Done Steak Habit
By Whet Moser
Chefs and food writers are turning America's steaks pink, but it's taken them many decades to do it. Read more
Five Things You Didn't Know About the Beats in Chicago
By Mark Schipper
Like how a Chicagoan coined the term "Beat," and other things you could learn at the Newberry Library this month. Read more
The Wrong Side of History: Police Cadets’ Day at the Holocaust Museum
By Adeshina Emmanuel
Chicago’s police cadets spend an immersive day learning about abuse of authority during the Holocaust. Can the same approach be applied to black history and civil rights? Read more
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