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Charlie Trotter Accused of Selling Bogus $46K Wine
Award-winning chef Charlie Trotter is being sued by two New York wine collectors who say he sold them a bottle of wine for more than $46,000 that wasn't what it...
The Fight to Save Chicago
Mayors are on the front lines of politics, where policy meets potholes. That's one reason mayors tend not to be ideological--is there a Democratic or a...
His Kind of Town
In a one-party town like this one, all great conflicts are intramural. Republicans pose no threat to Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel as he enters the third year of...
Rahm Emanuel’s Plan to Turn Around Chicago
Rahm Emanuel left the White House to run a broke, violence-plagued city, and he's having the time of his life, TIME's David Von Drehle reports.
Would-Be Chicago Backpack Bomber Gets 23 Years
CHICAGO (AP) — A federal judge has sentenced a Lebanese immigrant to 23 years in prison for placing a backpack he believed contained a bomb along a bustling...
Best-selling Author, Outspoken Rev. Greeley Dies
The Rev. Andrew Greeley, an outspoken Roman Catholic priest, best-selling author and longtime Chicago newspaper columnist who even criticized the hierarchy of...
How to Reduce Crime: Treat It Like an Infectious Disease
Once we recognize violence as a contagious process, we can treat it accordingly
Gun Land: Chicago’s South Side by Justin Maxon
In February, Justin Maxon, a photographer and Northern California native, spent several days and nights on Chicago’s South Side for TIME, trying to make fresh...
Are School Closings Discriminatory?
Chicago returned to the center of the national debate over the future of public education this week as the city’s school board voted to shut down 50 schools. The...
Ill. House Approves Guns Plan Opposed by Governor
(SPRINGFIELD, Ill.) — Gun owners could carry concealed weapons in Illinois, the last state in the nation to prohibit it, under legislation that swept through the...
Chicago Board of Ed Votes to Close 50 Schools
(CHICAGO) — The Chicago Board of Education voted Wednesday to close 50 schools and programs, an ambitious plan that has sparked protests and lawsuits and could...
Why The Chicago Bulls-Miami Heat Series Isn’t All That Rough?
Not according to one former playoff enforcer, NBA vet Xavier McDaniel
Goats As ‘Lawn Mowers’ at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport
Touching down at Chicago's O'Hare airport, airplane passengers can expect to be greeted by more than just the city's famed skyline bordering Lake Michigan. Next...
How Nate Robinson and Stephen Curry — The Little Guys — Have Taken Over the NBA Playoffs
Please, basketball gods, let these two guys keep playing out of their minds.
Chicago 3D Printing Shop Opens for Business
3D printing is coming to a city near you.
WATCH: Massive Sinkhole in Chicago Swallows Three Cars
A sinkhole opened up in a street in Chicago's South Side early Thursday morning large enough to engulf three cars and send one driver to the hospital.
Goats’ Head at Wrigley Field: A Century-Long Curse Gets Macabre
Was a goat's head sent to the Chicago Cubs' owner a threat? A macabre ritual? Or an attempt to lift the decades-old "Billy Goat Curse"?
Northwestern Engineering Students Make Booties for Chicago Penguins
Engineering students develop specialized booties for the Shedd Aquarium's feeble-footed aquatic birds
Speak, Memory
The true story of Aleksandar Hemon begins in a country that no longer exists. It's an ancient story: a young man examines his surroundings (in this case,...
