Why Downstate Fights for Coal

By Edward McClelland

It's a $100,000 a year job — in a region where the median home price is $87,000. Read more

Where to Get Coneys, Curds, and Other Midwestern Food in Chicago

By Edward McClelland

Increasingly, we're a city of homesick Midwesterners — and you can eat your way through the region without leaving town. Read more

Can Lightfoot Deliver the Goods?

By Edward McClelland

She ran on a platform of leveling the playing field in an increasingly unequal city. Can an American mayor really do such a thing? Read more

The Illinois Flag Is Terrible

By Edward McClelland

The North American Vexillological Association ranked Illinois's flag 49th out of 72 state and provincial flags. So, what gives? Read more

Once and for All: Is It the El, el, L, or ’;L’?

By Edward McClelland

Putting an end to the age-old debate. Read more

The True Story of Chicago’s “Welfare Queen”

By Edward McClelland

Ronald Reagan infamously caricatured Linda Taylor as a welfare bogeyman. As a new book out this month reveals, however, her actual story is even more sensational. Read more

How Lori Lightfoot Beat the Machine

By Edward McClelland

The inside story of her improbable, historic victory Read more

Let’s Get Rid of All the Townships

By Edward McClelland

Illinois has 1,428 of them — a big reason we lead the nation in number of taxing bodies. Read more

Is Rahm Trying to Be ... a Writer?

By Edward McClelland

The mayor has racked up 11 bylines in The Atlantic since announcing he wouldn’t seek a third term, often editorializing against 21st Century progressivism. Read more

Where Is Gentrification Happening? Follow the Mayors

By Edward McClelland

Richard M. Daley moved to South Loop. Rahm lives in Ravenswood. And Lori Lightfoot bopped around Wicker Park before settling in Logan Square. Read more

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