Some recent/favorite stories

Is salt mined under Chicago? 

From WBEZ’s “Curious City.”

Morton Salt Girl, Up Close and Personal, photo by Logan Jaffe for WBEZ

Chicago’s segregation, seen via time-lapse on the CTA Red Line

From WBEZ’s “Race Out Loud.”

The brain science of the “Latte Dilemma”: Are you really gonna pay $4 for coffee?

A neuro-economist explains.

The MCC:  Chicago’s Jailhouse Skyscraper

From 99 Percent Invisible, with the remarkable Roman Mars

If robots can write news stories… can they go to meetings for me?

part 2 of “You, Robot

Could Milwaukee become the “Silicon Valley of Water”?

What would that even mean?

The Mirage: A fake tavern that exposed real corruption

One of journalism’s all-time great stings, executed by the Chicago Sun-Times in 1978.

Wither the newssttand, as ink-on-paper fades?

How long can Chicago’s City News stand hang on?

More coming soon.

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