The Bears' veteran center is a surprise off-season departure, given the mere half-million-dollar gap between the two parties, and the Chicago football world is shocked. But something on the Bears' O-line has to change. Read more
Poverty tourism, opium-smoking, prison museums, panoramas of suffering, and other sordid entertainments for Chicago tourists at the end of a century. Read more
Listen; prepare, but have a conversation instead of conducting an interview. Plus: Terkel with Nelson Algren, and talking about Richard J. Daley. Read more
The Emanuel administration presents a bleak picture of the city budget, as sacrifice and competition for city services appear to be in our future. But one of the biggest factors in the city's expenses, employee health care, is the victim of greater national trends... and as a result, a tremendously difficult problem. Read more
The front man for Chicago's legendary C&W bar band, "the patron saints of Chicago's insurgent country movement," passes away at 80. Plus: ten picks to get caught up on the alt-country that came in their wake. Read more
It's been a tough year for White Sox slugger Adam Dunn by almost every metric. But thanks to a fantastic website, I found one stat by which he can claim bragging rights this season. Read more
A must-read Sun-Times report finds the upset 2010 winner has been sued for $100,000 in child support payments, just as the suburban rep has established himself as a voice of his caucus on television and in the House on the debt-ceiling debate. Which isn't going any better. Read more
Looking back at the best food in Chicago circa 1931, with Daily News reporter John Drury... and a time when restaurants were judges as much by who ate there as what they ate. Read more
James Warren argues that Barack Obama will come out of the debt-ceiling negotiations as the "adult in the room." But right now the kids in the room seem to be winning the debate. Read more
Stumbling across a well-organized archive of pictures of downtown Chicago, Lawndale, Pilsen, and more throughout the decades leads me astray for an afternoon. Read more
