July 16--Neil Young says he'll no longer allow his music to be streamed because he doesn't want it "devalued by the worst quality in the history of broadcasting or any other form of distribution." Forget AM radio. Has he seen the needle and the damage done via gramophone?
Technology enables us to see Pluto's icy mountains clearly from 3 billion miles away, yet we can barely focus on middle ground in Springfield 200 miles away.
General Mills is shutting down its West Chicago manufacturing facility. Between now and mid-2017, hundreds of local workers will get their final Chex.
A study ranked Chicago eighth worst for drivers among the nation's 100 biggest cities. That was before Illinois made happy hour alcohol specials legal again, so there's no reason to think the city can't crash the bottom five.
University of Illinois researchers find firstborns indeed have higher IQs than younger siblings but say it's too negligible to make a practical difference. Until the younger ones, fed up with being teased about the IQ thing, go ballistic.
Tonja Carter, the attorney for "To Kill a Mockingbird" author Harper Lee who shepherded publication of "Go Set a Watchman," says Lee may have stashed away another publishable novel. Could be titled "Billable Hours."
Officials nixed his solo trans-Atlantic flight because his monoplane was in poor condition. So Douglas Corrigan said he was leaving New York for California 77 years ago Friday, then flew to Ireland. Americans loved that. In Chicago alone, an estimated 500,000 attended "Wrong Way" Corrigan's parade.
philrosenthal@tribpub.com
