When Barack Obama visited Chicago last week, the outgoing mayor—an urban naturalist named Richard M. Daley—talked to him about some ideas he was kicking around for retirement, including beekeeping. Beekeeping? During his tenure, Daley was moved to install a City Hall rooftop garden that included beehives, whose presence threatened him with more of a sting […]
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Leszek Humienik, “legendary” taxi driver
First-person accounts from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford I used to drive for American Taxi, and I from the beginning treated it as a serious business. At the beginning of the 90s, the idea was to have a piece of junk for taxi. There were two taxi cars only, Chevy Caprice […]
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Show Us Your…Record Collection
Each week we ask you to show us something. This week, it’s your RECORD COLLECTION—John Corbett’s collection of vinyl, to be exact.
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How to Forage for Morels
We midwesterners are fortunate to be surrounded by primo morel-hunting terrain—that is, if you know when, where, and how to look for the deeply wrinkled, acorn-sized, deliciously nutty, $40-a-pound-at-Whole-Foods fungi.
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Chicagoans: Rachel Herman, Photographer Seeking Love
First-person accounts from off the beaten track, as told to Anne Ford A few years ago, I decided to see if I could photograph love. I started photographing people who were very in love, to the point where the photographs were syrupy. Then two couples in a row showed up in front of my camera […]
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Introducing your new Chicago Reader
Editor Mara Shalhoup explains the what and why of the new Reader