Nonfiction Review: “Slaughterhouse: Chicago’s Union Stock Yard and the World...
RECOMMENDED “Roses are red, violets are blue, the stockyards stink and so do you!” begins Dominic Pacyga’s account of Chicago’s Union Stock Yard. At the stockyard’s zenith, fifty-thousand people were...
View ArticleRace and the Silver Screen in Chicago’s Loop: Gerald R. Butters on his new...
By Toni Nealie Chicago’s Loop was once a lively area of movie theaters, the second most important cinema market in the country from the 1920s through the 1970s. By 1990, all eleven venues were gone....
View ArticleGaining Gay Power: Timothy Stewart-Winter Discusses “Queer Clout: Chicago and...
By Toni Nealie Stonewall and Harvey Milk were exceptional, but Chicago’s story better represented the nation’s path to gay power. In his first book, “Queer Clout: Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics,”...
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An Intellectual Carnival: A review of “Chicago Renaissance” by Liesl Olson
Olson’s most remarkable accomplishment, among many in this extraordinary book, is that she allows the reader to feel the thrill in creation.
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Child Killers: Nina Barrett discusses “The Leopold and Loeb Files”
Worms in the apple—"What makes a murderer different from you and me? And how do we, as a human community, respond to those who flagrantly violate one of our most fundamental taboos?"
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