A quick shoutout to Chicagoist commenter A2, our top commenter for the month of February. more ›

A quick shoutout to Chicagoist commenter Stephen, our top commenter for the month of January. more ›

A quick shoutout to Chicagoist commenter Pantagrapher, our top commenter for the month of December. more ›

Mister C, you win! Your guess of May 1 for the end of Frank Kruesi's career in our Frank Kruesi Dead Pool has won you a lovely Chicagoist T-shirt. Email Rachelle@chicago.com to claim your prize. For the rest of you — well, you can rejoice as well because the glory days of CTA President Frank Kruesi are over. Mayor Daley announced at this morning's press conference that Kruesi is retiring. Ron Huberman, the Mayor’s chief... more ›

Chicagoist is issuing a World Cup Challenge. Pick the winners of the games most accurately and earn a Chicagoist T-Shirt (High stakes we know). The World Cup begins tomorrow morning so visit the ESPN Pick ‘Em Challenge page today and select the Chicagoist group(Group number 54837) enter password "chicagoist" to join. You don't need to provide your selection for each game when you register. You can enter your pick for each game up to an... more ›

Hi. These letters from the publisher will be very infrequent on Chicagoist. We plan to use them to let you know what is going on with the site, and solicit feedback about ideas we are planning. more ›