For the weekend, two of the best articles I've read in awhile—about a teen killer from rural Indiana, and the isolated subcultures of GLBTQ life in in Boystown. Read more
The Poetry Foundation's annual literary celebration technically started last night with a sneak peek at a new Gates project at the Kavi Gupta Gallery Read more
The celebrity chef ate, drank, and tweeted his way through the city for his new show, "The Layover," but here are our dining editors' picks for where to go if you have one night to spend in Chicago... Read more
A comparison of Chicago's unemployment rate and percent of employed to unemployed since last year... is actually not unhopeful. And it's not just a matter of unemployment falling generally; Chicago's numbers compare favorably to growth spots like San Jose and Houston. Read more
Did Barack Obama actually say that "if you have a business, you didn't build that business"? It seems to depend on your ideology and/or how you diagram sentences. Either way, it's not a very interesting question. Read more
From 2005 to 2009, Chicago's percentage of fatal pedestrian crashes involving hit-and-runs was twice that of the national average. This year the percentage is very high. Stopping crashes is one thing; how do you stop behavior after a crash? Read more
On a scale of cheerfulness (with Edward Munch’s “The Scream” at the low end and a yellow smiley face at the high), local artist David Lee Csicsko’s work ranks as just the right amount of happy. Read more
