Whet Moser

A ride on the El by income, from the wealthiest stations (Linden and the Western Blue Line Stop) to the poorest (Pulaski, on the Green Line).

The similarities to the case of Illinois doctor Michael Swango are shocking.

It's a pretty big deal that the Cubs made a deal with City Hall on Wrigley renovations. But their planned jumbotron would cut a wide swath across one of the...

As Illinois drafts new gun laws, here are eight sharp stories that explain several sides of our problems with crime.

The lovable losers will lose less in 2013, but not until they start taking care of the little things that crippled them last year.

Long before he broke baseball's color line, the Dodgers great got a brief look from the Sox. He would have made them a much better team, but Chicago would have...

Over the past 50 years, the age of Chicago's violent criminals has steadily decreased. Is it due to a change in demographics, or is it public policy?

The state has a compelling case on pension reform, but the court could also tell it to suck it up and find another way to pay the obligations. Is a...

Big American cities haven't always had so much more crime than suburbs and rural areas. What's the problem?

A new study shows Emanuel's rubber-stamp City Council to be just as broken it has been for decades before him.