“With ridership lagging and a fiscal reckoning looming, the L is in trouble. Here’s why our train is worth saving.”
Chicago Magazine
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending notable stories by Kelley Engelbrecht, Sam Anderson, Lindsey Liles, Jeannette Cooperman, and Claire McNear.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Great AI Art Heist
“A lab at the University of Chicago is protecting artists from theft by a new adversary: the machines.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
Chrishona Hodges’s Life Sentence
“At a crossroads when Chicago profiled him nine years ago, Jerryon Stevens is now in jail, awaiting trial on a murder charge. At home, his mother reckons with her son’s path — and tries to hold her fractured family together.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Nazi of Oak Park
“It was a stunning revelation: A respected high school custodian had been a concentration camp guard. This excerpt of a new book examines how the disclosure of a dark secret in the early ’80s divided a suburb.”
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The Drawing the Art Institute Won’t Give Back
“The heirs of a famous Jewish entertainer killed in the Holocaust want the museum to return a work they say was stolen by the Nazis. But was it really?”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending stories from Emily Bazelon, Eva Holland, Kevin Pang, Jessica Traynor, and David Pierce.
Posted inEditor's Pick
The Ramen Lord
“It is cooking that veers into the domain of laboratory science.”
Posted inTop 5
The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
Recommending great reads from Zack Stanton, Bryce Upholt, Charlie Warzel, Emily Stoddard, and Laurence Gonzalez.
Posted inEditor's Pick
A Knife Forged in Fire
“All of human history would thereby be embodied in a single work of art.”