maps Redlining maps show racism and white supremacy "in 1930s technicolor" Elías Villoro

chicago The largely forgotten disaster of the SS Eastland Gareth Branwyn

chicago Visit the Chicago Sh*t Fountain Popkin

chicago Don't do this with a Bluetooth headphone knit hat Kevin Reome

coronavirus Americans party like there's no pandemic Kevin Reome

san francisco Sammy Davis Jr.'s Tonight Show love song to a city Kevin Reome

chicago The naming of 'Inside Vladimir' Kevin Reome

police Chicago PD's predictive policing tool has been shut down after 8 years of catastrophically bad results Cory Doctorow

marijuana Citing experience selling marijuana, unemployed Chicagoans seek permits to sell legally Jason Weisberger

music Dave Riley, bassist for Big Black, RIP David Pescovitz

Funny Cards Against Humanity's Thanksgiving livestream pits a machine learning model against human joke writers Cory Doctorow

class war Chicago teachers declare victory after 11-day strike Cory Doctorow

education #RedForEd rebooted: Chicago's teachers are back on strike Cory Doctorow

chicago Chicago driver goes full Blues Brothers, plows through suburban mall Gina Loukareas

chicago Abandoned coyote pup gets the care it deserves Séamus Bellamy

crime Corruption is contagious: dirty cops make their partners dirty Cory Doctorow

Business Pangea raised $180m to buy up low-rent Chicago properties "to help poor people," and then created the most brutally efficient eviction mill in Chicago history Cory Doctorow

class war Uber drivers across America are going on strike — UPDATED Cory Doctorow

Kids Chicago is demanding that children on bail wear private-sector ankle-cuffs with mics that can record them without their consent Cory Doctorow

corruption Chicago's first gay, Black, woman mayor won all 50 wards, defeating the machine candidate with an anti-corruption campaign Cory Doctorow