Bohemian Rhapsody: University of Chicago profs study the migration of...
By Sean Redmond Entering Wicker Park by the Blue Line, you emerge into the intersection of Damen, North and Milwaukee to a long-familiar sight. There’s the Double Door across the street, Flash Taco...
View ArticleRace Review: 13.1 Chicago Marathon (June 7, 2009)
Distance runners are a masochistic lot. Who in his or her right mind willfully rises at 5am on a Sunday morning in order to go out and run a baker’s dozen miles with a few thousand others? But even the...
View ArticleCheckerboard City: A Great Leap Forward?
By John Greenfield 7:58am After waking up at an ungodly hour, cycling to the CTA’s Fullerton stop, riding the Red Line south to 95th Street and pedaling a few more miles to the 103rd Street & Stony...
View ArticleOne Perfect Life: An Ode to the Real South Side
By Scoop Jackson “Pharaoh of the Sun/Lookin’ down the barrel of a gun/Y’all know where I’m from.” —from the poem “Keep On” by famous South Sider Lonnie Rashid Lynn Jr. (aka Common) We call them...
View ArticleThe Quarrywomen: How a Group of South Shore “Divas” Are Defying the Odds
By Krisann Rehbein I’m proud to say that the paper snowflakes were my idea. When my cab pulled up in front of The Quarry at the intersection of 75th and Phillips, my heart sank a little. Excited for...
View ArticleCheckerboard City: The Divvy Perimeter Ride
By John Greenfield This year’s Divvy bike-share expansion, beefing up the system from 300 docking stations to 476, is moving at warp speed. One-hundred new stations have been installed since mid-April,...
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