The Rundown: This guy fills Chicago potholes with mosaic tile
If you’ve seen a Chicago pothole filled with mosaic tile artwork – yet depicting something modern – it was probably the creation of Jim Bachor.
If you’ve seen a Chicago pothole filled with mosaic tile artwork – yet depicting something modern – it was probably the creation of Jim Bachor.
Chicago Sun-Times columnist Ismael Perez is offering advice to anyone who may seek it through “Someone In Chicago.”
The return of student loan payments means something different for current, and potential borrowers, especially women and people of color.
Social media assured anyone could go viral and smartphones made us all infinitely more trackable. How is that affecting parents and their kids?
Chicago’s own Ytasha Womack is a scholar of afrofuturism and the author of a new book, “Black Panther: A Cultural Exploration.”
If you live in Chicago, you know Lee Crooks—probably without realizing it. Crooks has been the voice of the CTA for 25 years, so he’s a fixture in most of our lives.
Instead of junk food and sodas, a Good Things Vending machine offers local art, throwback trading cards and games meant to spark joy.
Changes are coming to the Rundown feed. You can now catch three episodes every weekday: morning news, a midday deep-dive conversation and afternoon news.
The concept of a person’s “race” is relatively new in the scope of human history. Newberry Library has a new exhibit looking at the history.
A data analysis from WBEZ and the Investigative Project on Race and Equity has found that Black driver involvement in Illinois traffic stops is at a record high.