"City of Necessity": A Vivid Look at 1960s Chicago By Whet Moser Robert Newman's 1961 documentary captures the city and how it was lived, inside and out. Read more
“They don't live very fancy here at Cabrini” By Ben Austen Thirty-seven years ago, Mayor Jane Byrne moved into the Cabrini-Green housing project to draw attention to the violence and poverty there. It would become one of the most famous—and factious—publicity stunts in the city’s history. Read more
Old BBC Documentary Lavishes Attention on Frank Lloyd Wright's Robie House By Whet Moser Now available online, the 1975 doc explores the house before its restoration and just after it became a landmark. Read more
The Midwest's Only Chinese Catholic Church Weathers Its 70th Year By Rosalie Chan A pillar of Chicago's Chinatown, St. Therese continues to grow and evolve as the neighborhood flourishes. Read more
Chicago's Urban Renewal Displaced an Astonishing Number of People in the 20th Century By Whet Moser Federally funded projects led to the removal of almost 23,000 families in fewer than two decades, a new mapping project finds. Read more
How Chicago Gave America Its Time Zones By Whet Moser Until 1883, the country was a chaos of local times. Then, in one week, almost everyone in America was on the same clock. Read more
5 Things You'll Learn in This New Account of the 1919 Race Riots By Lauren Williamson Claire Hartfield examines one of the most violent episodes in Chicago history in this new book. Read more
Best of 2017: The Chicago Architecture Twitter Accounts That Kept Me Sane By Whet Moser Four ways of looking at Chicago brought urban beauty to my screen this year. Read more
How the Sears Catalog Captures a Time When Toys Were Less Pink By Whet Moser Toys are more gendered than they've ever been—even more than a half century ago, when gender discrimination was rampant. Read more
Best of 2017: Building Preservation and Restoration Projects Worth Cheering By AJ LaTrace Here's to the residents and developers who decided they'd rather make something better than tear it down. Read more
