• In Chicago, for instance, some 270, 000 students qualified to transfer this year, but only 1, 097 spots were available at better schools.

    ECONOMIST: Education reform

  • At a recent leadership conference in Chicago, for instance, he regaled 2, 000 middle managers with tales of Ernest Shackleton, a turn-of-the-century explorer who helped his party escape certain death in Antarctica -- and whose story just happened to be the subject of Endurance: Shackletons Incredible Voyage, the first volume in the Adventure Library.

    FORBES: Voyage of discovery

  • The Chicago area, for instance, once a hub of candy making, has lost about half its jobs in that industry over the past 15 years.

    ECONOMIST: Halloween and the globalisation of sweet-making

  • Philip Armour, for instance, was a meat packer from Chicago, Andrew Carnegie, a Pittsburgh steel man and Maximillian Fleischmann, a yeast maker from Cincinnati.

    ECONOMIST: High society in New York

  • Equity Office Properties owns around 30% of offices in Chicago's west loop, for instance, and is said to be using its clout to influence prices.

    ECONOMIST: American property

  • For instance, in Cook County, which includes heavily Democratic Chicago, hardly any Republicans bothered to run in judicial elections last year.

    ECONOMIST: Tort reform

  • Catapult Chicago, which opened March 5, for instance, occupies 12, 000 square feet, donated by a law firm, on the 25th floor of a skyscraper in the River North area.

    WSJ: A Start-Up Ecosystem Forms in Chicago

  • For instance, Exhale spas in New York, Boston and Chicago offer the Acu-Lift, which consists of the spa's signature facial followed by a consultation with an acupuncturist, who sizes up your needs, wants and general health and then goes to work.

    FORBES: Facing the Point

  • For instance, in the Gautreaux Programme, an experiment to combat racial discrimination in Chicago's public housing in the late 1970s, poor blacks were given vouchers to move to the white suburbs.

    ECONOMIST: How should America house its poor?

  • For instance, a public-private collaboration initiated by the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago with Neighborhood Housing Services of Chicago and the City of Chicago produced the Home Ownership Preservation Initiative (HOPI), which began in 2003.

    NPR: Transcript: Bernanke on Mortgages, Foreclosures

  • For instance, on Sunday, The Los Angeles Times published an op-ed by University of Chicago law professor Martha Nussbaum attacking Indian Hindus.

    CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: The jihadist-multicultural alliance

  • Take, for instance, Citizinvestor, a new service that allows municipalities (big ones, like Philadelphia, Chicago, Tampa) to put forth public works languishing at the back of the queue so interested parties can donate a few dollars that might get them over the financial hump.

    FORBES: All You Need To Know About The New Republic: Encapsulated In Its Attitude To Kickstarter

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