The Emmy-winning television producer talks about her new memoir and her parents, landlords who remained in the neighborhood through white flight and racial tension. Read more
By AnonymousAs told to David McAninchIllustration by Sam Kalda
Now all but forgotten, an obscure religious commune took over a building in Uptown and tried to change the world. A daughter of the sect remembers. Read more
The Chicago journalist, fresh off awards for his huge biography of Muhammad Ali (and while working with Morgan Freeman and Ken Burns to adapt it), has signed on with FSG to tell an even more titanic tale. Read more
On the heels of the Making Oprah docu-podcast, anchor Jenn White looks at how the city shaped the president, making his rise possible (and almost impossible). Read more
