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Jeanne Gang: Reversing the River Could Transform Chicago
The architect and MacArthur genius grant winner on how reversing the flow of the Chicago River could solve the Asian carp problem—and improve the city
Chicago’s Looming Asian Carp Problem—What You Should Know
CARPOCALYPSE NOW: Even if you’ve never been pummeled by agitated Asian carp, these fish represent a major threat. Preventing them from entering Lake Michigan could cost taxpayers a bundle—and, depending...
Poetry Foundation Stages ‘Meet Mr. Yeats’
In March 1920, on his third and final visit to Chicago, William Butler Yeats explained his dramatic ideal to a crowd at the Casino Club. “I am trying,” he said,...
Books We Like: Marcus Sakey's "The Two Deaths of Daniel Hayes"
The Chicago novelist's latest is about about a man who wakes up without clothes or an identity on a beach in Maine, travels across the country's belly, and winds up...
Gioia Diliberto On Hemingway's First Wife, Hadley
Journalist and novelist Gioia Dilberto discusses the new edition of her biography of Hadley Richardson Hemingway, the legendary writer's first wife, which brings to life the couple's passionate Chicago courtship.
Former Chicago Athletes: Where Are They Now?
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...
Leonard Weinglass, Chicago Seven Lawyer, Dead at 77
Weinstein, er, Steinglass, that is, Weinglass for the Defense: the "workhorse" of the Chicago Seven's team, and later an attorney for Angela Davis, Daniel Ellsburg, and Amy Carter, passes away.
How a Chicago Detective Found the Stolen Body of Elizabeth Taylor's Third Husband, Mike Todd
When thieves stole the remains of the showman Mike Todd in 1977, Anthony Pellicano—later the "detective to the stars"—stepped in to solve a case that had baffled police. Turns out...
Slower, Elvis . . . Kiss . . . Kiss!
How Chicago's Tura Satana, the outrageously buxom movie star who won pop-cult enshrinement as the badass girl-gang leader Varla in Russ Meyer's 1965 movie "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!," put the...