Is Chicago Too Cold to Compete With the South?
A city's temperature in January correlates with its population growth—and, when choosing a place to live in 2014, Sunbelt cities have other competitive advantages.
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Ten Stories For Everyone in Chicago to Read This Week
What Rahm will get out of CNN’s Chicagoland, how the city’s neighborhoods got their names, and other big issues—like, is it safe to eat Lake Michigan fish?
Child Poverty Is Rising Quickly in the Chicago Suburbs
The increase in child poverty in the suburbs around Cook County accounted for almost half the statewide increase in the 2000s.
How Wonder Bread Saved Civilization
Before it was the scorn of nutritionists, fortified white bread was a health food breakthrough that helped stop disease and win a war.
What Chicago Looks Like on a Totally Average Day
Follow the data trails of thousands of Chicagoans as they work, play, and commute over the course of 24 hours.
Why Cities Are Chasing High-Tech Manufacturing
Chicago's new digital manufacturing hub is a good example of how public subsidies are targeting tech—and the economic logic behind it.
Here Are This Week’s Must-Read Stories
Neil Steinberg on Rahm, the Sun-Times on the mini-Rahm, and what's next for Groupon, drugs, manufacturing, the vacant Edgewater Medical Center, and more.
The Immense Ambition of Chicago's Digital Manufacturing Hub
With an infinite number of virtual factories and an open-source manufacturing platform, the implications of the Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute go far beyond Chicago.
What Chicago's Digital Manufacturing Hub Could Achieve
This development can combine ideas from Silicon Valley, German industry—and Swedish pop music.
The Must-Read Stories of the Week
This week: Why Chicago’s wealthy school districts may underwrite the less fortunate, how authorities captured the most-wanted drug lord, a basketball matchup for the ages, and more