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What is Chicago for? The answer is still up for grabs.
Financialization exposed the grain trade to global economic shocks, driving out small farms that couldn’t handle the volatility. But there was no going back.
Today, the tilting tribute anchors an entertainment district whose main attractions include a solid brewpub and a trendy members-only club called Costco.
The residential hotel defined “Hobohemia.” Then it vanished.
The White House, the stock market, and every other podcast ad seem to agree that AI is an inevitable step forward.
Obama smiles all day on a four-story video installation called Power of Words, which is about the power of images, not words.
In the latest renderings the building has traded PoMo for corporate minimalism, cocaine and double-breasted suits for microdosing and gray T-shirts.
The Sheboygan plumbingware giant—still churning out crappers—aims to turn the lavatory into a lifestyle.
Follow the lakeshore southeast from Chicago and you’ll soon arrive at a landscape that feels more Martian than Midwestern.
No other presidential library has ever prioritized community engagement in its very design.
2828 North Clark isn’t the loveliest lovely, but it offers some vague hope and embodies a distinct Midwestern swag.
Lake Shore Drive is a sixteen-mile monument to civic madness.
