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The Year After

Hold your head high, Chicago. This city has long been punching up, almost apologizing for itself as it jabs, but get your chin up; the Chicago Cubs are World Series champions. That means every major sport has now claimed at least one title in most of our lifetimes—a Super Bowl, six NBA championships, three Stanley […]

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Hope on a Chicago Morning

Hope. Hope upon hope. Hope met, ever-so-recently, with a reality that just might be able to justify it. Hope that springs out of a century of nearly unremitting despair, punctuated by brief moments of brilliance and a deep, abiding love. Love of a city, rising high above the heart of the country, that draws in the great […]