- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, May 22, 2013
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When push comes to shove, should laid-off journalists sue?
Terminations of newspaper employees aren't what they used to be—just ask labor lawyer Sheribel Rothenberg.
- News & Features, Feature, Apr 25, 2013
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The man who transformed high school baseball on the south side
Simeon Career Academy's veteran high school coach has spent three decades building an unlikely baseball dynasty. Will Leroy Franklin and his Wolverines finally get the recognition they deserve?
- News & Features, Feature, Feb 27, 2013
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An endangered piece of history beneath Lake Michigan's surface
The shipwreck of the Silver Spray has rested a stone's throw from the Hyde Park shoreline for nearly 100 years—but it may not be around for much longer.
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, May 1, 2013
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Rick Kogan might be sentimental—just don't call him a sentimentalist
The storied Tribune columnist gets a "mea culpa" from Trib theater critic Chris Jones.
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, May 14, 2013
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Mayor Emanuel's FOIA policy: Don't ask because we won't tell
As a Chicago parent discovered, city officials can't hand over records if they've already destroyed them.
- News & Features, Feature, May 8, 2013
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Addicted to guns
Is there a cure for Chicago's crippling dependence on firearms?
- News & Features, Feature, Dec 17, 2009
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The Real American Pie
Mince pie was once inextricable from our national identity. Blamed for bad health, murderous dreams, the downfall of Prohibition, and the decline of the white race, it nonetheless persisted as an American staple through the 1940s. So what happened?
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, May 5, 2011
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Who's Saying the Innocence Project Sprung a Killer, and Why?
- News & Features, Miscellany, May 22, 2003
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The Rest of the Story
"Lawyer Known From TV Arrested" --Chicago Tribune, April 25
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Apr 17, 2013
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Former Reader editor delves into the hunt for more of John Wayne Gacy's dead
Alison True's johnwaynegacynews.com pushes for greater transparency in the search for more victims of the executed serial killer.
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Jun 13, 2012
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Masters of their domain
The Tribune goes after the Occupiers’ websites
- News & Features, Feature, Sep 10, 2009
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Chicago's 2016 Olympic Bid
An archive of the Reader's coverage by Ben Joravsky and Mick Dumke
- News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, Apr 7, 2011
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1984
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- News & Features, Media, Aug 17, 2006
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Jay the Joke Isn't Funny Anymore; The Blame Game; News Bites
After attracting some vicious posts only marginally about Mariotti, the site gets a Wikipedia entry that's sure to incite a whole new flame war.
- News & Features, Chicago Reader at Forty, Apr 21, 2011
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1986
The year in Chicago history via the pages of the Reader
- News & Features, Essay, Jun 7, 1990
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Sport: Watching the World Cup
Do American really like watching athletes perform or just talking about athletes performing? With its simple rules, lack of structure, and continuity of play, World Cup soccer may be the ultimate test of the American sports fan's attention span.
- News & Features, Media, Apr 1, 2010
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A Virtual Honor, a Real Job
Sun-Times sports editor Chris De Luca has extra reason to appreciate our Golden BAT award.
- News & Features, Michael Miner on Media, Feb 6, 2013
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Son of the Sun-Times
In his new memoir, After Visiting Friends, Michael Hainey solves the mystery of his father's death.
- News & Features, Politics, May 26, 2011
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The 20 months that made Mayor Emanuel
Our interactive time line shows how Rahm became the Man on Five
- News & Features, Ben Joravsky on Politics, Mar 5, 2013
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Waiting for the day of judgment from Mayor Emanuel
The threat to close a quarter of Chicago's public grammar schools has the city in a tizzy.
