Sears passes through another rough quarter, with store closings, layoffs, revenue drain, and more corporate turnover. Is it a brand that's lost its identity, or did its customer base lose its identity? Read more
A timelapse video captures the nighttime beauty of the Chicago grid going west into the distance, and an astronaut shows us a storm heading towards Chicago. Read more
A last remnant of old Chicago, having served the Gold Coast for over a century, is in the process of being remade. Hopefully it will last longer than the two years that some of the Brown Line's planking gave us. Read more
The Oreo equivalent of the Big Mac is actually an Argentinian cookie coming back to us here in the states, as Kraft's growing international market works both ways. Read more
If it sounds like an air raid downtown, it's that time of year again, a magic weekend when the blood pressure of every downtown office worker spikes. Read more
How the political ideals of the most influential economist of his generation became a movement for free-floating man-made island nations in the hands of his grandson, director of the Seasteading Institute. Read more
The Metropolitan Planning Council suggests a much more ambitious (and expensive) version of ultra-express buses than the CTA plans to roll out in the next couple years. Plus: a chance to build, or at least judge, computer apps for Chicagoans. Read more
Are three-quarters of Illinois high-school graduates not "college ready"? If by "college-ready" you mean "even odds that they'll get a D in at least one class freshman year," then yes. Read more
The Weather Channel offers a blistering defense of God from Gov. Mitch Daniels, and the Indianapolis Star delves into how scaffolding regulated... and how it isn't. Read more
The fight between two encased-meat giants concerns, quite simply, how we perceive reality and truth, and whether it's best described as "100% beef" or "100% beeflicious." Read more
