In the 1880s, the railroad-car magnate George Pullman built a factory and a company town for his employees on what’s now Chicago’s Far South Side. The industrial works have largely disappeared... Read more
The first use of computers to analyze baseball? It appears to have been a bizarre spasm of midcentury modernization by Phil Wrigley with his struggling Cubs. It didn't take. 20 years later, the White Sox—with future GM Dan Evans—put analysis to its highest use, creating lots and lots of home runs. Read more
On your agenda: The actress Alexis Johnson channels Billie Holiday…the dancer Miguel Gutierrez transforms neurology into choreography…free art, plus the weekend plans of the performance artist and Co-Director of Happy Collaborationists Meredith Weber Read more
Aside from the obvious sources—nearby counties and states that don't have Chicago's history of strict gun laws—a surprising number of guns come up north from the Delta into the city, a current dilemma overlaying the old tracks of history. Read more
The state's flat tax, its dependence on property taxes, and relatively high sales taxes (both state and local) combine for a tax structure that, compared to other states, hits the poor hard—and the middle class as well. Read more
