The top 10 percent and the bottom 20 percent of the city are swelling.

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They plan to run similar trials on seven more patients over the next three years, backed by $4 million from the National ...

Goff’s best-known structure in the Chicago area is the circular Ford House in Aurora, built in 1949. Images: Courtesy of The Art Institute of Chicago If you could mix the creative DNA of Dr. Seuss, ...

The building, red bricked, colonnaded, crowned with a white cupola, sits on a grassy knoll in northwest Hinsdale. Unmarked, unremarkable, it barely registers as anything more than a garden-variety ...

The old stark skyline is gone. It’s Chicago, April 2068. Gardens grow on the sides of skyscrapers that house the city’s 20 million residents, many of them refugees from coastal regions consumed by the ...

Above, clockwise from top left: The Red Light Levitating Bluetooth Speaker, Your Personal Einstein Genius Homework Robot, the Hypnotic Jellyfish Aquarium, the Indoor Flameless Marshmallow Roaster, the ...

Sometime in the later years of the previous decade, I entered a contest from a local company, Coudal Partners, and won. The contest was something like "what's the weirdest cover of a hip-hop song." My ...

He was a ghost, in a way, the walking dead. Only he wasn’t dead, though he should have been, or would have been but for his own prescience. In a frozen corner of a park at an intersection in Des ...

Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old from Schaumburg, wakes up feeling sick. Her parents keep her home from school, and she takes some Tylenol. She was the first victim. Our office was notified, but there ...

Jamie Bushman at The Circle Salon: “It all comes down to lines,” says Bushman, who focuses on the geometry of the face to shape her up-to-date angled bobs and on-trend pixies (think longer in the ...