There are plenty of tested ideas out there, developed in Chicago and elsewhere, looking for champions—and a White House that definitely likes to talk about the problem they've been developed to solve. Read more
But the journalist and Chicago-area native wholly disagrees. Here, he talks about how he and the franchise got used to decades of suffering, and what happens now that the curse has been broken. Read more
More than 50 years ago, a nine-year-old girl died in a fire, leaving her widower father alone and distraught. He spent the next weeks of his life placing memorials for her across the city—and today, only one remains. Read more
Lena Soderberg's centerfold shoot in November 1972 (the magazine's best-selling issue ever) became the Lena test image, coded into the DNA of the web. Read more
The man who famously parlayed $8,000 into the Playboy empire died today at 91. We look back at what he meant to Chicago, and what Chicago meant to him. Read more
