MR. NONSTOP: Chicago’s hardest-working serial entrepreneur—the man who remade Kendall College and gave Rahm Emanuel a place to call home—is busy creating a digital-arts alternative to the four-year college degree Read more
LOVE RULES: The playwright Sarah Ruhl adds to her string of Chicago productions with the world premiere of Stage Kiss, a comedy exploring a few of her favorite themes—the nature of romance and the line between fantasy and reality Read more
THE DIVA'S NEW DIRECTION: With a celebrated eye and an imperious style, Ikram Goldman turned her high-end Chicago shop into a quasi salon for the rich and well dressed. Now, even as reports surface that she’s no longer outfitting her most famous client, she’s making her boldest move yet—opening a 16,000-square-foot megaboutique that challenges her personalized sales formula Read more
BOUND FOR GLORY: An oral history of how Michael Jordan, Phil Jackson, and the rest of the 1991 NBA champs learned to play together and started the greatest pro sports dynasty the town has ever seen Read more
By Michell Eloy, Geoffrey Johnson, Jenna Marotta, Graham Meyer, and Shane Tritsch
What do star athletes do after their playing days are over? We tracked down a onetime Bears cornerback who’s now a practicing dentist and a missionary; a former Blackhawks star who copilots jetliners; an ex-Cub who became a jazz trumpeter; and more Read more
THE TIPPING POINT: This season the soft-spoken Chicago native has blossomed into one of the most dazzling basketball players on the planet. Here's how he did it Read more
U-TURN: For decades, undergraduates at the University of Chicago seemed to live by the ancient notion that scholars must “suffer into learning,” and over time applications and enrollment declined. As a result, school officials have worked to reinvent the place, and today Hyde Park has become a hot destination among students applying to the country’s top-tier colleges Read more
DEMYSTIFYING THE MART: For decades, the River North behemoth felt impenetrable to everyone except the design cognoscenti. Now a new program aims to lure in the public. Here's your guide. Read more
