Searching for Chicago’s parrots
As we search for wild parrots, we collect a visual menagerie of responses about where the critters live and how to find them.
As we search for wild parrots, we collect a visual menagerie of responses about where the critters live and how to find them.
While we look for the source of a wayward smell we learn how noxious neighborhood odors attract “official” investigations and how smell mysteries are (sometimes) solved.
No need to hold your nose at the city’s namesake plant — it now has a reputation for being tasty and plentiful.
A marooned commuter asks how the rail service makes the call to slow or even stop its trains when the weather gets rough.
Orland Park has a history buff in Bill Healy. A golf outing with pals had him raise a question worth some virtual time-travel: Where were there WWII German POW camps in the Chicago area?
A Curious Citizen’s convinced Chicago spends too much on a struggling high school. We check his back-of-the-envelope math.
The new season is perfect for commutes, summer road-trips, dinner-cooking or sleepless nights. And earworms. Serious earworms.
From the outdoorsy to the artsy, here’s the most surprising stuff you can check out in area libraries. Return this story in three weeks, please!
Recent information confirms that Chicago’s electricity aggregation deal swapped coal and nuclear sources for (mostly) natural gas. Is it any clearer, though, whether the change is better for the …
Curious City received an anonymous question about the area’s best privately-owned doughnut shops. The search is on, but we need your help!