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What does it mean to be a part of a neighborhood? Blogger Britt Julious writes that in many ways, the now defunct website EveryBlock shaped her understanding of her community.

My father’s family often regarded my mother and my sisters with suspicion. He was from the South Side; my mother was from the West. They were both born in the South, in Alabama and Mississippi, but Chicago neighborhoods have a way of changing you.

Pork, eggs, cheese and bread. These seemingly humble ingredients have become the Four Horsemen of nearly every breakfast nook in Chicago.

Sharon’s a tall, blonde, thin astrophysicist. And she has a secret. The different subfields of physics have different ratios of women to men. Astronomy tends to attract women more than other sub-branches of physics. Not to say that there are a lot.