Daniel Kay Hertz talks about a plan to cut taxes on 98 percent of taxpayers while raising two billion dollars towards closing the state's budget deficit. Read more
Since 1999, the gay adult film industry has doled out its highest honors at a ceremony in Chicago. We sent a photographer to the Metro to check it out on Saturday. Read more
Once upon a time, Richard J. Daley hired the Cardinals legend and former Cubs manager to lead a program to teach 200,000 Chicago kids how to play baseball, in order to combat juvenile delinquency—despite Hornsby's considerable deficits as a role model. Read more
The Columbia College prof and former Washington Post Baghdad bureau chief adopted two sons from the country. After both were diagnosed with autism, she traveled there to examine the subject. Read more
J.B. Pritzker is running on a progressive income tax, which would require changing the state constitution. Expanding service taxes and taxing retirement income wouldn't be so much work—but no one's interested in doing it. Read more
In the summer, Chicago’s beaches and waterfront parks become the city’s melting pot, its great leveler, a 26-mile-long stage for thousands of intimate vignettes. Over a single weekend, photographer Lenny Gilmore immortalized 15 of them. Read more
The Hyde Park-reared mutual-fund manager beat powerful incumbent Joe Berrios handily in the primary. Can he fix the problems that made his victory possible? Read more
