The Chicago Literary Club’s 150 Years of Camaraderie and Civility
The organization started as a way to fortify the city's intellectual culture. Now it's looking to recruit younger members to carry on its traditions.
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16 It’s the Best Time to Look for Animal Tracks
When snow falls overnight, the footprints of Chicago’s wild critters are unusually visible, especially in nature parks or cemeteries early in the morning, before people (and their dogs) show up....
A New Survey Asks Chicagoans: What’s Your Neighborhood?
"The first step of elevating a neighborhood as being important is naming it and identifying it and thinking of it as a real place."
Five Things: How the Great Fire Changed Chicago
In The Burning of the World: The Great Chicago Fire and the War for a City’s Soul, Scott W. Berg offers new conclusions about the 1871 fire and its aftermath.
Housing’s Wild Ride
While many of the real estate agents in our annual rankings of top sellers took a hit in last year’s cooling market, others continued to thrive.
A Short History of Chicago’s Wildlife Celebrities
The foxes who took up residence in Lurie Garden and the peregrine falcon who dive-bombed downtown pedestrians to protect her ledge-nesting chicks are just the latest critters to enthrall us.
The Ja’mal Green Campaign Bus Saga Had Twitter Enthralled
Call it a metaphor if you’d like. On the day before Chicago’s city elections, mayoral candidate Ja’Mal Green’s campaign bus got stuck in the mud.
The Great Chicago Fire, As Told By Those Who Lived Through It
As the city marks the 150th anniversary of the defining event, ROBERT LOERZEL mines the archival record to offer a compelling portrait of what it was like to live through...
50 Moments That Shaped Chicago 1970–2020
A lot has happened since Chicago published its first issue 50 years ago this month. Mayors have toppled the status quo, championships have been won and lost (and won again),...
Extra! Cow Vindicated
Think you know everything about the Great Chicago Fire? Think again: In a new book, historian Carl Smith rekindles the untold stories of our city’s most famous disaster.