We've always considered ourselves to have quite a bit of confidence in our city, stepping onto the pavement this morning, seeing happy people and their dogs, we couldn't help but smile and take a deep breath of some long awaited warm air. It's always important to stay on top of the game though, so this weekend we thought we would take a stab at improving on this. We agree with the Chicago Center for Green... more ›

Friday night, Chicagoist sat in the Kroc University Theater of the Adler Planetarium to hear Al Gore's "An Inconvenient Truth" presentation given by someone with PhD style credibility, Dr. James Sweitzer. The majority of the presentation had the same slickness of Gore's documentary without the cut scenes of impending doom (though the excessive rumbling of traffic above the theater was slightly ominous). However, in lieu of soliloquies about being a boy on a farm,... more ›

Oh blue bags, how we will miss mocking your irrelevance in the world of recycling. After a successful test of the 96-gallon blue carts in the Beverly neighborhood, the city will be tilting the carts onto their back wheels and rolling them to 7 wards throughout the city. more ›

OK, so maybe Chicago is the fattest city, but we’re also at the top of the list of “sustainable” cities. Which means we can continue to stuff our faces with deep-dish pizza and combo sandwiches long into the future, until we have a heart attack. Or something like that. more ›

Oh Mayor Daley, you're so forward thinking! Check you out in that fancy schmancy National Geographic article, all up in the environment. They even say you’re "leading by example." That's certainly one way to describe the City administration. more ›