Edward Robert McClelland

With Arlington scheduled to close, the last track standing is betting a new model will bring new bettors to an old sport.

Since the 1980s, what the country thinks of as suburbia looks a lot like the well-off northern suburbs of Chicago.

Inequality of income and safety has increased precipitously over the past few decades, driving the city's Black population down—and back to the South.

Mordecai "Three Finger" Brown set the ERA mark to beat in the National League (and won a couple World Series).

Out of 100 major world cities, Chicago "exhibits the closest approximation of a single perfect grid." It's not quite the City of Light, but it befits our city.

Go Midwest, young man.

Most famous for getting beat by Abraham Lincoln, the senator's other local legacy is making Chicago the railroad hub of America—at immense cost.

Integration, and the cultural changes that come with it, have changed the way Chicagoans (and Michiganders, and Upstate New Yorkers) talk.

We don't drink Old Style, eat that deep dish, slaughter hogs, or battle the wind like the rest of the world thinks.