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Tag: Writers – Whet Moser

Chicago's Urban Renewal Displaced an Astonishing Number of People in the 20th Century
By Whet Moser
Federally funded projects led to the removal of almost 23,000 families in fewer than two decades, a new mapping project finds. Read more
10 Great Stories You Should Read This Week
By Whet Moser
A community-funded West Side health clinic, a governor’s race with unlimited money, and 10 years of Chicago’s Field Notes. 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
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
This Week’s 10 Must-Read Stories
By Whet Moser
What happens after suburban cop shootings, a look at Lena Waithe’s The Chi, and the ruination of Jackson Park. 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
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
This Week’s 10 Must-Read Stories
By Whet Moser
A lot of investigations worth reading this week: Legionnaires’ disease in a veterans home, the infrastructure trust bust, and immigration fraud in Chicago. 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
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