The Cubs are even worse than expected for the third straight year. They're bad—but they actually play well enough to have a better record than this. Here are the stats of a team on a terrible run of bad luck. Read more
The city ranks well in a new survey, thanks to the wonderful network of parks in Daniel Burnham's Plan of Chicago. We'd have done even better if politics hadn't killed so many other good ideas. Read more
Read stories on the Cubs’ last link to a World Series win, Chicago’s storyteller Stuart Dybek, a moment of local violence caught by an NPR reporter, and more. Read more
The writer takes on the media's ignorance of history, why Chicago is an ideal case study for discrimination, and how uncomfortable it is to undo policies that were racist by design. Read more
Segregationist policies divided Chicago—and America. Those ideas impacted blacks as well as "probationary whites," setting the stage for stories like "The Case for Reparations" today. Read more
Chicago’s history of housing segregation in the national spotlight, a solution for the city’s potholes, the man behind the city’s big Federal drug busts, and more. Read more
Learn the truth about Chicago’s crime stats, the city’s best restaurants—statistically, why local police are still making so many marijuana arrests, and more. Read more
Chicagoland began sprawling in the wake of the Great Fire—and its infectious growth influenced the spread of other cities, laying the groundwork for suburbia as we know it. Read more
