By individual homicide count, the City of St. Louis ranked 16th in the country in 2022. So does this mean St. Louis does not have a crime problem? What Areas of St. Louis are Safe to Live in or Visit? Having established that St. Louis City is statistically more dangerous than St....
There may not be anyrealmermaids swimming in Lake Michigan—but those in the know traveling down Lake Shore Drive through Chicago's South Side will head to the southern tip of Oakwood Beach to find theSecret Mermaid, a stone figure that was surreptitiously sculpted out of limestone by four ar...
particularly in the wooded areas of the Appalachian Mountains. But one thing's for sure: Thebluish color of their "glow" is unusualamong creatures that exhibit bioluminescence (or the ability to "light up," thanks to a chemical reaction in the body). Although these...
urban areas analyzed in 2022 remain below their 2019 levels, including 38 of the 50 most congested cities. Of the 2022 top 10, only Chicago, Miami and San Francisco reached or surpassed their 2019 traffic levels, while the rest are still below that year’s values. Here are the 10 most ...
A suburb of Chicago, Livability gives Glencoe an exceptional living score of 79. Perhaps that's because the income per capita ismore than 250% higher than the U.S. average, or the median home value is more than 380% higher than the national average. Of all the residents, 94% own their...
% of commuters who walk to work:3.1% With the fourth most congested roads in California, San Diego’s roads are not as egregious as other Californian urban areas. While this SoCal city doesn’t have a particularly robust public transportation system, there is a ray of hope for some commuter...
Ed Kelly, the 47th Ward machine boss and patronage chief whose practice of concentrating park resources in white areas had been exposed by the Chicago Reporter a decade earlier. But for Burke it went beyond parliamentary maneuvering. By several accounts, Washington distinguished between Burke and ...
On the other hand, taking a developmental quarterback prospect at Pick No. 5 (or worse, trading up further for him) will cost the Seahawks the chance to draft a blue-chip player likeWill Anderson Jr.orJalen Carterto fill other areas of need. Quarterback isn’t the most glaring hole for...
respect for its setting than something like Viticulture does (or at least it seems so to me, as an admitted non-expert), which came through in its presentation of the champagne-making process and the detail in the types of grapes, the different areas of the champagne region, and so forth...