Chicago will still have hundreds of underused former churches once the former Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church of Logan Square is completely demolished, but this outcome is a letdown through whichever lens you choose.

The rise and fall of the multilingual, multi-ethnic department store of Chicago’s white working class.

"America's Model Cleaning Plant" no more

Soon after first firing the crematorium here in 1909, the management at Oak Woods Cemetery turned around and instituted a color line—racist even in death, “we only burn white bodies here”.

Licorice, but also munitions, shade cloth, steel springs, and...lava lamps.