The modern or contemporary museum's self-professed job now often includes reconfiguring social relationships, emphasizing performance and participation of the audience.
My boys did not grow up on a farm. This might not be an issue if 99 percent of their early reading did not consist of stories that featured owls, bears, cows, kangaroos, bats, pigs and little red hens.
Preserving the iconic headquarters of Ebony-Jet has become a common focus of numerous debates. Some believe a part of Black American history is being sold.
In Chicago, one out of three children lives below the poverty line. Statistics show these children are more likely to have poor health, to fall behind in school, and to become less productive workers when they grow up.
A quadriplegic, former police officer Jim Mullen is nevertheless an entrepreneur living the American Dream. His growing apple sauce business has, unfortunately, been forced to deal with Chicago bureaucracy.
Tom Geoghegan, author of the new book Were You Born on the Wrong Continent?: How the European Model Can Help Get You a Life, stopped by The Interview Show.
Is Chicago becoming the "Suburb of the Century" in the twenty-first? Are big box retailers eating up our neighborhoods? If you care about our city, be a part of the debate.
It's critical that Congress and the FCC focus on the goal of universal broadband and not get distracted by divisive internet regulation policies, such as net neutrality legislation, that suck the energy out of the process.
If we are serious as a nation about crime reduction, and solving our budget woes, we have to spend our limited resources in a more intelligent way, look at our policies with a longer view, and embrace our brothers and sisters who are in trouble.
You're going to need a website. Many of you have them, but there are a few surprises in the pool that don't. Danny Davis and Roland Burris, I'm talking to you when I say the web is really important.
If you want to know what government controlled health care will be like, look at the Orwellian mess at any American airport.
Chicago mayor candidate Rahm Emanuel is planning some key changes to Chicago's use and management of its infamous Tax Increment Financing districts.
This year's city budget called for no tax increases and no significant further cuts in services. It's a perfect election year budget. So what's not to like?
Charles Joly of The Drawing Room proved once again that Chicago is no flyover state when it comes to fine dining and nightlife.
We simply cannot continue approving permits that are rife with false claims such as support from experts who have long since passed away or environmental impact reports on animals that don't even reside in the region.
Deb Sokolow's work at Western Exhibitions reminds me of reading comics as a kid. There's a pulpy quality to her narrative pieces. A story is revealed or dissected.
Paulinho Garcia, the Brazilian-born Chicago guitarist and vocalist, is one of the city's -- if not the country's -- major interpreters of the classic Brazilian repertoire.
There is no reason for the United States to yield its position as the world's leader in supercomputing. We cannot afford to take a back seat in computer technology to the Chinese, or to anyone else.
Rahm: How about gathering together the best South Side minds in town and figuring out with them how to spend that seven million dollars you're about to deposit in your checkbook.
