Starting next year, a 31-year-old beloved Chicago tradition will be no more. The South Side Irish St. Patrick's Day Parade Committee announced today that it will not host its annual parade in 2010. more ›

We now join another one of our irregular weekend crime & punishment updates, already in progress. more ›

While the male denizens of the Chicagoist offices often find themselves helpless in the face of the mighty trilogy of Male Kryptonite (cute girls, beer and televised sports), we do have our own post-feminist moments. We attribute this to spending our formative years around smart, witty and tough women who encouraged us to question the answers that society was feeding us, the kind of women who write for Bitch Magazine. more ›