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April 2012
Chicago's Global Clout: Now and In the Future
By Whet Moser
Two new reports see Chicago's position among world cities staying relatively stable, at least compared to our national peers; the real growth will be among China's biggest cities. On the other hand, we're "becoming more important geopolitically than the United States is as a country," so we've got that going for us. Read more
Owners of Zak’s Place to Open Two in West Town
By Penny Pollack, Graham Meyer, and Carly Boers
Two Market, Two Market
Matthew Van Valkenburgh and Yamandu Perez, the owners of Zak’s Place in Hinsdale, are coming to the city for their next venture, Two, scheduled to open in midsummer... Read more
Top 5 Things to Do This Week
On your agenda: Steppenwolf ensemble members march through a Civil War saga… Old Town School of Folk Music plays host to folk royalty … Chicago Jazz Ensemble jams with the poet Sonia Sanchez Read more
The Culture That Makes an MF Global Possible
By Whet Moser
Karen Ho, the author of Liquidated, an outstanding ethnography of contemporary Wall Street that explains how its internal culture spills out into the American economy, discusses the mindset that can bring down a huge financial firm run by terribly bright people. Read more
Mitt Romney Wins Wisconsin
By Whet Moser
The presumptive nominee takes Wisconsin by a desultory but solid margin, making him more inevitable than the day before. The secret (besides lots of cash)? Santorum's advantage among evangelicals is also his ceiling. Read more
Federal Vouchers Will Help 100 Homeless Cook County Veterans
By Dennis Rodkin
About six months from now, 100 homeless military veterans in Cook County will have a place to live, thanks to a $760,872 grant from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Those 100 vets represent a 55 percent increase in the number of Cook County veterans helped into housing through HUD’s Veterans Affairs Supportive Housing program (VASH)... Read more
The CME Group, Rahm, and TIFs: Correcting the Record
By Whet Moser
Another day, another article claiming that (for better or worse) Rahm Emanuel is bringing a new form of government to Chicago, casting off its patronage legacy and bringing the city into the 21st century of civic governance. It's a lot more complicated than that. Read more