The Chicago neighborhood with the second-lowest per-capita income and the highest hardship score has a food insecurity rate over 50 percent. The city's wealthiest neighborhood still has one over ten percent. Read more
On your agenda: The Grinch steals Christmas, again… The Book of Mormon arrives in Chicago… free contemporary classical, plus the weekend plans of the Talk of the Town illustrator, Tom Bachtell Read more
A new bill proposed by Elaine Nekritz and Daniel Biss takes many of the pension-reform ideas that have been floating around, and weds them with some new ones; it's already got a fair amount of backing. Is it legal? How well will it work? Read more
"Do you consider yourself an all-star tweeter? Put your skills to the test. Blu Dot has taken to the Twitterverse to host friendly (read: super-competitive) games of musical chairs." Read more
One of the quirkiest houses on the North Shore—with light fixtures carved from wooden salad bowls, a Western-themed mural above the living room, and a distinctly offbeat fence—came back on the market this month, five years after it went up for sale for the first time since it was built more than 90 years ago... Read more
A mile of cycle track downtown might not seem like that much, but it's the first time in awhile bike-friendly cities like Portland and Seattle have envied a piece of Chicago infrastructure. You can thank the warm weather for it going in so quickly. Read more
"When I visit Rebuilding Exchange (which we covered in our blog last year I love seeing the raw materials saved from demolished (and soon-to-be demolished) buildings, but I tend to leave empty-handed because I have no idea how to turn anything there into something I would actually put in my home. But I just found out about a non-profit branch of the Rebuilding Exchange, RXMADE." Read more
