Bryan Smith
1 month
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The Ghosts of Flight 191
Judith and Sheldon Wax were local literary figures — she an author, he a top editor at Playboy. Forty years ago this month, they and 269 other people boarded a plane to Los Angeles. What happened next haunts Chicago to this day.
10 months
ago
Bill Kurtis
Chicago’s iconic newsman opens up about a life of extraordinary triumphs, profound pain, and never-ending reinvention.
1 year
ago
My Father, the Stranger
I’d only seen my dad twice as an adult. I figured he was out of my life for good. Then came word that he was dying.
1 year
ago
Read Our City and Regional Magazine Award-Nominated Stories
From a look inside a high school that’s half immigrants to the legacy of Charlie Trotter, some of the magazine’s best writing from 2017 is here.
2 years
ago
Remember Rita? Documentary Digs Into Illinois’s Most Interesting Embezzlement
When Rita Crundwell stole $53 million from Dixon, Illinois, in 2012, the feds called it the largest case of municipal fraud in U.S. history.
2 years
ago
How Chris Collins Made a Winner of Northwestern Basketball
After coaching the Wildcats to their first-ever NCAA tourney bid, the former Glenbrook North star is bent on making the program a perennial power.
2 years
ago
RIP Hugh Hefner: From a Hyde Park Card Table to a Media Empire
The man who famously parlayed $8,000 into the Playboy empire died today at 91. We look back at what he meant to Chicago, and what Chicago meant to him.
2 years
ago
The Ballad of Ed “Bad Boy” Brown
He was an undefeated boxer, a title contender. But he couldn’t escape the violence of the West Side.
2 years
ago
The Doomsday Squad
A team of computer modelers at Argonne National Laboratory is preparing for the urban calamities most Chicagoans would rather not think about.
3 years
ago
