Unmaking a Murderer By Jake Malooley Inside the efforts to exonerate the “Starved Rock Killer.” Read more
Ranking the 7 Lincoln-Douglas Debate Sites in Illinois By Edward McClelland From Freeport to Jonesboro: how seven Illinois towns honor the debates that took place on their soil. Read more
Why Can’t We Quit Rod Blagojevich? By Edward McClelland With a new miniseries on Hulu, Blago can't seem to quit the spotlight — and the public seems to keep eating it up. Read more
Opinion: Let’s Take Lake Michigan Away From Indiana By Edward McClelland Making the case to take the shoreline away from Indiana, where steel mills continue to pollute the lake. Read more
When Martin Luther King Jr. Lived in Chicago By Kevin Boyle Fifty-five years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment on the West Side. He would leave not quite a year later, having learned a frustrating lesson: He could expose the city’s gaping racial wounds, but he could not heal them. Read more
Opinion: How Illinois Became a One-Party State By Edward McClelland Illinois isn't the only state with the problem, but it can breed bad government. Read more
Does Obama Still Need Chicago? By Edward McClelland We may consider Obama a product of Chicago, but he’s as much of the city as he is of Hawaii, New York, or Harvard. Read more
Q&A: Thomas Geoghegan Thinks We Should All Vote By Edward McClelland A new book from the Chicago lawyer re-imagines American government in a way that is just, fair, and Constitutional. Read more
The Big Number By Edward McClelland House Democrats are looking to Illinois to maintain control of their slim majority. Read more
Illinois Suburbs Are Leading the Democratic Agenda By Edward McClelland Despite his hard work to turn the suburbs blue, their switch to the Democratic Party may have lost Speaker Madigan his seat. Read more
