Mariano Park lease should go to highest year-round bidder
The Chicago Park District needs more money, and the lease for the little cafe in Mariano Park, the center of the Gold Coast's "Viagra Triangle," is up this fall. Once...
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From Cards Against Humanity, a game incubator emerges
"This game is going to ruin your life," "Cards Against Humanity" co-founder Max Temkin warned as he introduced "Threes," "a tiny puzzle that grows on you," and its co-creator Greg...
How outgoing Leo Burnett officer Susan Credle would pitch Chicago
Susan Credle, Leo Burnett's outgoing U.S. chief creative officer, will have more influence over Chicago now that she's leaving for New York. As the new global chief creative officer at...
Crisis Text Line: Big data helping solve big problems
The text message to a DoSomething.org staffer read: "He won't stop raping me. He told me not to tell anyone." Those words quickly made their way to Nancy Lublin, the...
Chicago isn’t Detroit — and it’s not going bankrupt
Chicago isn't Detroit — and it's not going bankrupt. When Moody's Investors Service recently downgraded Chicago's debt to junk status, the decision equated to a 5 percent chance, in Moody's...
Jason Erkes’ lessons learned as he departs Chicago Sport & Social Club
When Jason Erkes and a group of investors bought the Chicago Sport & Social Club out of a dot-com bubble bankruptcy, the club's most valuable assets were its Park District...
Silicon Prairie. Gov. Zell. Wrigley video board. Readers respond.
My inbox wasn't brimming after I put out a call Sunday for a catchy tag line for Chicago's tech industry, but the suggestions I did get were of such high...
Silicon Prairie — love it or loathe it?
"Silicon Prairie." That's how out-of-town journalists often describe Chicago's burgeoning technology scene. It's a simple, catchy and unceremonious tag line. I love it. Some of my colleagues loathe it. A...
Bruce Rauner’s biggest strength? He has little to lose
Gov. Bruce Rauner reminds me of Sam Zell from back in the days when the grave dancer was posing as a newspaper baron. "I've said repeatedly that no matter what...
Religion, death and design: Technology’s last frontiers
During a startup competition Thursday at the University of Chicago, a team of business school students projected two photos side by side: The interior of a funeral home in the...