A recent study conducted in Illinois colleges finds the usual: students don't know how to research stuff. Only now, they don't know how to research stuff using Google. They were just born too late. Read more
Sears passes through another rough quarter, with store closings, layoffs, revenue drain, and more corporate turnover. Is it a brand that's lost its identity, or did its customer base lose its identity? Read more
New York City goes zero for three in its newest arenas. But Midwestern sports architecture provides hope for the future... and in Chicago, you can see its storied past, where it all went wrong, and where it started to improve. Read more
Google picks up the Libertyville-based company for $12.5 billion in cash. The main reason has a lot to do with increasingly aggressive patent warfare between the nation's biggest tech companies—a legal bulwark, in short. But the purchase may have implications for your cable box, as well. Read more
A look at popular beer-ranking sites shows Chicago to be a great town for stouts and other complex beers. Plus: who wins the Anheuser-Busch InBev/Miller showdown of gargantuan, generic beers? Read more
Rahm Emanuel announced today that the head of Newark's police department will be the next superintendent of the Chicago Police Department. There's a lot that's familiar: experience with technologies like Compstat and surveillance cameras, and union tensions. Read more
Apparently a lot of people believe that tornadoes can't strike big cities, or at least the downtown area. It's a little more than an old wives' tale, but a lot less than the truth. Read more
A map shows the distribution of el stops throughout the city, revealing where's a short walk, and where's a long haul, to the city's public-transportation arteries. Read more
Back in 1990, the Bulls had the best player in the NBA, but they weren't the best team, even in their own conference. They needed the right players, and the right coaches to put them together. Enter Phil Jackson, Tex Winter, Scottie Pippen, and Horace Grant. Read more
New news about recent news, as Mayor Daley continues to doggedly pursue his long-held dream of an ORD express train, and another name gets added to the mix of rumored CPS chiefs. Read more
