- News & Features, Feature, Oct 17, 2012
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Two students, two high schools, two divergent paths to college
Jasmeen Wellere grew up on the south side, Hayley Himmelman on the North Shore. Both flourished in their classes, but they've faced very different challenges—and been afforded very different opportunities
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 9, 2009
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Postcards From Disco Demolition Night
The kids at Comiskey's Disco Demolition Night were alright, says photographer Diane Alexander White
- News & Features, Feature, Nov 26, 2009
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The Charcuterie Underground
In the view of a burgeoning number of outlaw bacon curers and sausage grinders, some rules are made to be broken.
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012
"You've just gotta filter out noise."
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 13, 2000
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"Get Yourself Some Dynomite!"
In his new memoir, art dealer Richard Feigen details 40 years' worth of dirt, dish, and disappointment to explain what's wrong with the Chicago art scene.
- News & Features, Feature, Jun 16, 2011
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The misfire
Chicago's tough gun law was supposed to help officials track who's acquiring guns and who's misusing them. So far it's doing neither.
- News & Features, Feature, Jan 11, 1996
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Town Without Pity
Police torture: The courts know about it, the media know about it, and chances are you know about it. So why aren't we doing anything about it?
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 22, 2012
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Deadly poverty
Homicide is just one of many killers plaguing Chicago's poor black neighborhoods
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 15, 1999
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Touch and Go v. The Buttholes
After nearly 20 years of putting out records without lawyers or contracts, Corey Rusk was forced by one disgruntled band to defend his system in court. The outcome may change the way the underground does business.
- News & Features, Feature, May 10, 2012
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Scratch and stitch
The well-tailored line between hip-hop artists and the streetwear companies hustling to promote them
- News & Features, Feature, Aug 10, 2000
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A Most Dangerous Method
Early in his career therapist Alan Jacobs admired the ideas of Transactional Analysis guru Jacqui Lee Schiff. In the years since, he's come to see in her extreme practices echoes of the authoritarianism that created the Third Reich.
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 7, 2011
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Jerry Butler: Soul Survivor
Jerry "Iceman" Butler was an A-list soul singer, playing with Curtis Mayfield and Otis Redding. Today, he mulls taxes and health care as the longest-serving member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 2, 2008
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Soul Train Local
The show that put black music on TVs across America got its start in Chicago—and even after it moved to LA, Chicago kept its own version running daily for nearly a decade.
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 7, 1995
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What Makes Obama Run?
Lawyer, teacher, philanthropist, and author Barack Obama doesn't need another career. But he's entering politics to get back to his true passion—community organization
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 27, 2011
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The Original Pink Ladies
Grease's girl gang had a real-life model on the northwest side.
- News & Features, Feature, Oct 31, 2012
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The link between lead poisoning and underperforming students
With mounting evidence that lead poisoning results in lower test scores, more children repeating grades, and worse, why has so little been done in Chicago to reverse the damage?
- News & Features, Feature, Jul 16, 2009
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Daniel Burnham Told Us to Fill the Potholes Too
In defense of "little plans"
- News & Features, Feature, Jan 9, 2013
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DePaul's men's basketball team on the rebound
The once-successful Blue Demons helped transform DePaul from the little school under the el to the largest Catholic university in the country. Can DePaul now help the team recover some of its fading glory?
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 9, 1992
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The Irish Connection
Murder in Winnetka: How FBI zealots, abetted by a naive local police force and a gullible press, made human-rights lawyer Jeanne Bishop a victim of her sister's slaying.
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 19, 2012
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People Issue 2012:
Janet Voight, the diver"There must have been cliffs 20 meters high and it's dark and you can only see ten feet ahead of you."
