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In Chicago and Illinois, efforts to make sure modern, reliable smoke alarms are installed in every home have been halting and slow.

Of all the players in the sprawling ComEd bribery investigation, the politicians, connected lobbyists, precinct captains, consultants and door knockers, it’s the business executive with the background in theater who stands out.

Mayoral candidates Paul Vallas (right) and Brandon Johnson (left) prepare for their first forum of the runoff campaign last week at NBC 5 studios in the Peacock Tower.

Chicago Bears long snapper Patrick Scales attends practice at the NFL team’s facility in Lake Forest, Tuesday, Aug. 2, 2022. | Ashlee Rezin/Sun-Times

House Speaker Mike Madigan

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Michael J. Madigan will likely never step foot in the federal courtroom where four former political power players are about to face trial, accused of trying to bribe the longtime Illinois House speaker to benefit ComEd.

But the case starting Tuesday is all about Madigan.

And once it’s underway, it is expected to finally pull back the curtain on an aggressive federal investigation that reshaped Illinois politics... Читать дальше...

Research facility at Quantico: six letters.

Can you guess the notable person in six clues or fewer?

The editor, writer, publisher, and only subject of the sometimes weekly Jennifer Mills News considers stories such as “Woman Finds Hardboiled Egg in Purse.”

The author reads his story from the March 20, 2023, issue of the magazine.

A succession battle involving a fight for the patronage of Sarah Jessica Parker threatens to stop the presses at a Greenwich Village newspaper.

The artist discusses capturing movement, creation as a collaborative endeavor, and the ways that visual communication can transcend eras.

After the Afro-Cuban writer H. G. Carrillo died, his husband learned that almost everything the writer had shared about his life was made up—including his Cuban identity.

A cartoonist’s view of his parental homeland, gleaned from secondary and secondhand sources.

Ben Platt, the Tony-winning star of “Dear Evan Hansen” and, now, “Parade,” discusses some links to the character he plays, and discovering that he’s Josh Groban’s cousin.

The sociologist Matthew Desmond identifies specific practices and policies that consign tens of millions to destitution.

Billy Collins strolls among the palm trees to explain why he left Westchester for Winter Park, and why his poems keep getting shorter.

In a show at Dia Beacon, the artist explores her poetics of the body and her philosophical belief in flow.

For more than twenty years, Maylis de Kerangal has been writing strange, singular books that turn the worlds of our jobs into art.

The author discusses “False Star,” his story from the latest issue of the magazine.

Our culture is dominated by efforts to score points and win arguments. But do we really talk anymore?

“The Great Displacement,” “The Half Known Life,” “Big Swiss,” and “Age of Vice.”

New cartoons from the magazine.

The musician takes Americans on a tour of British rap.

The right’s fixation on gender reminds the writer of Putin’s Russia, which targeted L.G.B.T.Q. people. Gessen explains why the message of rolling back social change is powerful.

Poetry by Deborah Landau: “Catch me alive? I am today—swept through the air in a flesh.”