In Ayers's new memoir, Fugitive Days, he reconciles his militant past with his present identity: father of three, esteemed professor at UIC—and unabashed patron of the great bourgeois coffee chain, Starbucks Read more
Before she was a New York senator and a presidential hopeful, Hillary Rodham was a teenage Republican. Here's our 1994 look at the girl who grew up in Park Ridge. Read more
A huge black turnout in November 1992 altered Chicago's electoral landscape—and raised a new political star: a 31-year-old lawyer named Barack Obama. Read more
