Are fewer people being killed in America because there's less violence, or because we're better at saving the wounded? It's really, really hard to say, because we're much better at measuring death than life. Read more
List Price: $3.265 million The Property: Everybody likes to bring home souvenirs of their travels. From a trip to Scotland, you might bring back a kilt (like the one I’m wearing in today’s video) or an entire house... Read more
In the wake of unimaginable tragedy, we often think that it's beyond explanation. But what if we could use reason not just to explain it, but to attack its underlying causes? Research into psychopathy at the University of Wisconsin—the result of unprecedented access to the state's incarcerated population—is giving us insight into the psychopathic mind, and early but promising strategies to deal with it, and perhaps heal it. Read more
On your agenda: A play featuring a puppet horse… a film about soldiers during wartime… free art, plus the weekend plans of the No Small Productions principal Kristen Kaza Read more
The state has long had trouble deciding to pay its share of employee pension costs. In the 1990s, representatives of the pension system filed a complaint about it, and were told: the constitution guarantees that the state has to pay the pensions. It doesn't guarantee that it has to fund them. Read more
When Zillow announced last week that Chicago is the country’s number one market for homebuyers, I snarkily replied on Twitter that, by the same token, Chicago is the number one place where sellers are taking it in the shorts. Two reports out that same week backed me up... Read more
Readers ask questions, and our real estate expert answers. This week, a reader named Nicole from Burr Ridge asks for advice on how to determine the price of their home in a neighborhood where nothing has traded in several years. Read more
