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Ever wonder where Chicago's best-dressed people buy their clothes? How about where the city's designers and connoisseurs shop for themselves? We wanted to know. So we asked local experts and assorted culture mavens to name their favorite stores and top-secret sources—and we share the results here. Read more
If you're a fan of the Ad Report Card at the online magazine Slate, then you're already familiar with the writing of Seth Stevenson, who has been the column's main contributor since 2003. Today, his first book—an epic travelogue titled Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World—came out... Read more
The longtime political reporter Ben Joravsky didn't think much of Evan Osnos's profile of Mayor Richard M. Daley in the March 8th issue of the venerable weekly as evidenced by this reaction piece, which posted yesterday at the Chicago Reader's website... Read more
President Obama’s new secretary of education takes the lessons of Chicago Public Schools to the big stage Read more