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April 20, 2007

Ray Bradbury meet Glen Hiemstra, Futurist

In my column today, I wanted to write a gorgeous ode to Ray Bradbury, my long-time hero, who gave me eyes to see into a mysterious and exciting future and who was awarded a Pulitzer citation this week. But instead I gave you tidbits from my conversation with the founder of Futurist.com.

He says we'll be living in houses half the price and half the size sooner than you think

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February 02, 2007

Ultralocal Olympics

Today in The Right Place, the people of Washington Park say that they want the Olympics in their neighborhood but they hope some other improvements will happen along the way.

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January 07, 2007

Olympic Opportunity

On Friday, we asked a number of experts, and political and business leaders what they thought of Chicago's proposed use of historic Washington Park as an Olympic Stadium.

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