Rosemont-based Riddell Seeks to Build a Safer Football Helmet
DAMAGE CONTROL: As evidence of the toll taken by head injuries in football continues to mount, the high-tech quest to create a better helmet advances, little by little, in the...
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Adam Greenberg Dreams of Making It Back to the Majors
UNBROKEN: Five years after a bean ball ended his big-league career on the first pitch of his first at-bat, the former Cub still yearns to fulfill his big-league dream
For the Chicago Comets, Blindness Is No Impediment to Tough Competition
A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN: The players on the city's beep baseball team have the bruises to prove their toughness.
Why I Run
MAKING STRIDES: Our man wonders why he endures the mental and physical grind of long-distance running. Then, one nasty spring day, in a stinging horizontal rain, the answer comes to...
Six Decades After His White Sox Debut, Minnie Miñoso Still a Fan Favorite
At 86—or perhaps 88—the team's first black player (one-man charm offensive) can often be found at the park surrounded by beaming fans.
Golfing the Arctic Circle
ARCTIC BLAST: The mission: a round of golf near the top of the world. The foursome: three boomers and their dead buddy’s ashes. They’ve got one RV, a full tank...
Laurie Schiller, the Most Successful College Coach You've Never Heard Of
BLADES OF GLORY: As the women's fencing coach at Northwestern, the gentle 60-year-old has surpassed 1,000 wins in his career—success that puts him a cut above most other college coaches
How the Bulls' Derrick Rose Went from Good to Great
THE TIPPING POINT: This season the soft-spoken Chicago native has blossomed into one of the most dazzling basketball players on the planet. Here's how he did it
The St. Valentine's Day Massacre and Al Capone—Excerpt from Get Capone
THE COLDEST CASE: Since February 14, 1929, when seven men were gunned down inside a Clark Street garage, the mastermind behind the St. Valentine's Day Massacre has remained a mystery,...