by IDALMY CARRERA | Feb 27, 2012
In sports, it’s about numbers. Leo High School won their latest track and field state title last May by one point. This marked the school’s sixth state championship. When Leo won its first state title in 1981, it became the...
by DAN McGRATH | Feb 27, 2012
Bill Walsh was acclaimed as a silver-haired coaching genius for collecting three N.F.L. championships and compiling a .612 winning percentage in 10 seasons running the San Francisco 49ers. An industrial psychologist with expertise in such matters once told me that...
by JAMES WARREN | Feb 27, 2012
Imagine going to a karaoke bar and having an academic conference break out. It’s almost how I felt last week as a very attractive woman, attired in a tight and very short gray dress, attempted a passionate but amateur rendition...
by MERIBAH KNIGHT | Feb 27, 2012
One said goodbye, embracing his anxious parents. One left without a word, indignant and angry. After traveling thousands of miles by bus, train and on foot, the two young men met in a homeless shelter on Chicago’s Northwest Side. Oscar...
by MATT CONNOLLY and KRISTEN McQUEARY | Feb 24, 2012
Lawmakers in the Illinois House earned an extra $661,000 last year for serving as committee officers, even though some committees met fewer than five times and a handful met once, a Chicago News Cooperative analysis found. The House paid members...
by MERIBAH KNIGHT | Feb 23, 2012
Sometimes, in the wings of life’s final act, are those who help the dying exit the stage with a bit more ease. Last February, Ellen Goode moved her mother, Frances Livermore, from her nursing home in Niles into Goode’s living...
by JUAN-PABLO VELEZ | Feb 22, 2012
Jeremy Bloyd-Peshkin was “printing” himself a whistle. He watched as a computer-guided 3D printer – a sort of glue-gun on steroids that turns digital blueprints into physical objects – slowly formed the little instrument by setting down layers of melted...
by DAVID LEPESKA | Feb 22, 2012
As anti-Muslim rhetoric rises at the local and national levels–some of it fueled by the presidential campaign–a group of Chicago-area Muslims is battling back, using tactics ranging from a TV ad campaign to public forums against bigotry. Gain Peace, a...
by BRIDGET O'SHEA | Feb 20, 2012
The sounds of chaos bounce off the dim yellow walls. Everywhere there are prisoners wearing orange, red and khaki jumpsuits. An officer barks out orders as a thin woman tries to sleep on a hard bench in a holding cell....
