Who Was The French Angel?
The bust of Maurice Tillet, a professional wrestler, sits on display at the Museum of Surgical Science. While Tillet may have appeared “an apelike creature," he was brilliant and gentle.
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What Does Division Street Divide?
In Streetwise Chicago, the 1988 definitive guide to the origins of our city street names, authors Don Hayner and Tom McNamee came up mostly empty on Division: “There seems to...
Riding the Lakefront Trail, Part Two: The South Side
Our bike ride continues down the path, from Soldier Field to South Shore Drive, with stops at a prairie and Promontory Point.
Riding the Lakefront Trail, Part One: The North Side
We bike along the path's humble beginnings in Edgewater, past a bird sanctuary and old-school bait shop, to its flashy stop along Navy Pier.
Long Ago, Before 312 and 773, Chicago Had Telephone Exchanges
In a time before cell phones, a call required a few letters and numbers that directed your call to the right neighborhood.
There Is No Place Like the Blackstone Library
Perhaps Timothy Beach Blackstone was motivated by competitiveness with fellow industrialist Andrew Carnegie, or by civic boosterism, but he believed a library should be a work of art in itself.
The Neighborhood Names That Have Disappeared
Places like Bricktown, Pacific Junction, and Whiskey Point now only exist on internet maps.
“These Dances Cannot Be Separated From the Culture”
Phaedra Darwish, a Palestinian-American dance instructor, wanted to bring the Middle East back to its old neighborhood of Chicago Lawn for a day.
The 10 Best Illinois Movies
We take you across the state and over numerous genres to find the best films centered in Illinois.
We Sow We Grow Wants to Make West Pullman an Agri-Neighborhood
“We want to build a food forest that adds to the beauty of the neighborhood," says Natasha Nicholes, founder of the small farm that occupies a single lot in the...