How the Shieldses Said No to Charlie Trotter, Went to Rural Virginia, and Opened One of Chicago's Best New Restaurants By Whet Moser John and Karen Urie Shields took a long southern detour on their way to opening Smyth + the Loyalist. Read more
10 Great Stories to Read This Week By Whet Moser Chicago’s best new restaurants, how Rick Bayless launched his career, and Illinois’s high-tech highway. Read more
Illinoisians Are Willing to Pay More Taxes to Help the Poor By Whet Moser Just don't ask us where exactly the money should go. Read more
Another Way Illinois Shoots Itself in the Foot When Defunding Colleges By Whet Moser It's not just about educating students—colleges are proven to spur economic growth by their very existence. Read more
10 Stories You Should Read This Week By Whet Moser Chicago’s food truck fiasco, fire and police widows become victims to budget feud, and a CPS teacher’s story. Read more
It's Going to Be a Little Harder for the Cubs This Year By Whet Moser Last year the Cubs looked like the dominant team in baseball, and they were. They're still a great team, but the competition got better. Read more
Chicago Isn’t Just Segregated, It Basically Invented Modern Segregation By Whet Moser The Great Migration happened right around the time powerful Chicago interests found ways to separate people of different races. Read more
Chicago Has Struggled to Build Mixed-Income Housing for 50 Years By Whet Moser It's been the CHA's goal since long before the Plan for Transformation, but resistance and mismanagement have dogged it since the 1960s. Read more
10 Great Stories You Should Read This Week By Whet Moser How Chicago police lose track of officer discipline cases, the Willy Wonka of high-tech cooking, the plight of downstate Cairo, and more. Read more
Trump, State Budget Make Rahm "Nervous" About Parks Plan By Whet Moser Showpiece spaces like the 606 and the Riverwalk could become much harder, if not impossible, to fund. Read more
