Chicago has a number of good law schools and you can often get some assistance or referral by calling them and speaking to the editor of the law school paper. You can go to the bathroom for free in the Julius J. Hoffman Room at Northwestern University Law School. ...
Under the new law, a gubernatorial candidate would select a running mate for the primary election. Voters would either support the pair or reject them over a different team. The change comes after Illinois Democrats were embarrassed in this year's primary election. Scott Lee Cohen was the nomin...
The academy classes are taught on the third floor of Sullivan, in a long, rectangular room, filled with posters of brains, hearts and medical terms. In one corner are two gurneys with plastic dummies lying on them. Students take honors classes in science and double periods of career courses...
The Metro stage was adorned with mason jars hanging off of beams that looked like telephone wires, as the band sauntered onto the stage and launched into "Southern Point," a song that I believe Thom Yorke might have wished he wrote for Radiohead. It's a multifaceted and layered track, w...
Chicago police dispute those accounts. Two months after our interview, a detective did pay another visit, but the family believes more should be done. So they're trying to find Porshe's killer themselves, putting up reward posters near the crime scene. ...
On a Labor Day visit to Chicago, I was taking a long, long walk up Milwaukee Avenue, when I suddenly began to see one terrazzo storefront floor after the next – a whole run of them. All of them mid-century renovations. All of them vacant. All of them ringed with original 1920s or...
“a rather tedious process involving much painstaking labor,” as a 1902 article inThe Inglenookput it, but it didn’t involve a lot of heavy machinery or blast furnaces. Since one stick of gum would be sold at just one cent retail, hiring women—and paying them less than men, of ...