There are a lot of ways to emulate cities with friendlier bike/car/pedestrian relations. Cutting off bike lanes to spite our face is the opposite of what's needed. Read more
Newspaper readership has been falling for decades—long before today's online journalists were born, and even before some of their parents were born. Read more
Boomers are confused by their kids' preferences for comic books, young-adult novels, and other trappings of a Millennial childhood. But they forget the nostalgia boom of their own past, and how it resonates today. Read more
Chicago's open-data community takes another step forward with a site that makes working with that data easier, faster, and more comprehensible. Read more
Summer in the city this year was cool and unusually temperate, with a near-record low of 90-degree days: a pleasant corner of a very hot earth. Read more
