Why UChicago Is Opting for Analog Classrooms
The University of Chicago is selectively going tech-free. Its undergrad dean, Melina Hale, explains why.
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How Argonne is Supercharging Scientific Discovery
Argonne’s Ian Foster explains how AI will be used to accelerate research.
Why Does Chicago Hate Food Carts?
Street vendors thrive in other cities, but Chicago has made it tough for them to...
R. Kelly May Not Be So Lucky in Brooklyn
Unlike his 2008 trial in Chicago, R. Kelly’s alleged victims are willing to testify in...
Opinion: There’s No More Invisible Politician than an Illinois State Legislator
The state’s legislators are too far from Chicago for the city’s inhabitants to really care,...
What Happened to Timmothy Pitzen?
A decade ago, his mother took him out of school for a three-day spree. Afterward,...
Evanston Drama Teacher vs. Critical Race Theory
A lawsuit filed by a middle school instructor brings the Fox News–stoked debate over antiracist...
Transplants Are Trampling the Chicago Machine
Chicago politics used to exclude anybody nobody sent. As outsiders change the city's makeup, they're...
Lauren Underwood’s Long Game
The former nurse who flipped Illinois’s 14th District rode into Congress with a historic freshman...
Tactical Switch
How Chicago’s lawsuit against an Indiana firearms shop could affect the future of gun control
How the Remap Could Impact Chicago’s Three Black Congressional Districts
A day of reckoning is here: After the 2020 census, the city can no longer...
Worst Things Chicago Politicians Have Said on a Wiretap, Ranked
News that Alderman Ed Burke was caught on a federal wiretap making an anti-Semitic remark...
What Does “Defund the Police” Really Mean?
Calls to abolish the police have been renewed with the shooting of 13-year-old Adam Toledo....