Chicago Register https://chicagoregister.org/ Chicago Register en-us McCuddy’s, then Comiskey, if at all https://chicagoregister.org/mccuddys-before-comiskey.html https://chicagoregister.org/mccuddys-before-comiskey.html Chicago Sat, 03 Oct 2026 13:00:00 +0000 The Sox are in the playoffs. And winning? That’s not nothin’. The Chicago Scramble https://chicagoregister.org/chicago-scramble-3-october-2026.html https://chicagoregister.org/chicago-scramble-3-october-2026.html Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000 Five scrambled words and one usher at Wrigley. The Chicago Cipher https://chicagoregister.org/chicago-cipher-3-october-2026.html https://chicagoregister.org/chicago-cipher-3-october-2026.html Sat, 03 Oct 2026 11:00:00 +0000 The Great Fire, a young man from Maywood, and nine words in code. The Bears Sent in Mr. Wolf https://chicagoregister.org/the-bears-sent-in-mr-wolf.html https://chicagoregister.org/the-bears-sent-in-mr-wolf.html Sports Fri, 02 Oct 2026 17:00:00 +0000 Roger Goodell sat down with the governor on Thursday. Hammond wasn’t in the room, Pat Ryan was. And his own stadium opens tonight. The Rules https://chicagoregister.org/the-rules.html https://chicagoregister.org/the-rules.html The Record Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Four hundred years of deals on this ground, sorted. Seven positions, fourteen rules, and one chart of who held what. The Record. The Beaver and the Gun, Fort Orange, 1621 to 1701 https://chicagoregister.org/the-record-the-beaver-and-the-gun.html https://chicagoregister.org/the-record-the-beaver-and-the-gun.html The Record Thu, 01 Oct 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A trading post on the Hudson River sold guns for beaver and never sent a man west. Seventy-seven years later a deed signed in that same town had Chicago written on it. Jerry Reinsdorf knows exactly how to win. The question has always been when he wants to. https://chicagoregister.org/jerry-reinsdorf-knows-how-to-win.html https://chicagoregister.org/jerry-reinsdorf-knows-how-to-win.html Sports Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 A tax lawyer bought the White Sox for about $20 million in 1981. Part One is the man. Part Two is the land. Why would anybody pay $130 to wear another man’s name on his back? https://chicagoregister.org/another-mans-name-on-his-back.html https://chicagoregister.org/another-mans-name-on-his-back.html Sports Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 You would never wear a stranger’s name on a sweater. On Sunday half the city does it on purpose, pays full price, and the stranger gets a check. Aldermen spent their meter votes on a sealed promise to sell a deportation airline https://chicagoregister.org/omni-air-sealed-promise.html https://chicagoregister.org/omni-air-sealed-promise.html Business Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Aldermen traded their votes for a promise to sell a deportation airline. The vote is spent. The airline is not sold. The promise is sealed. And the buyer has no name. Chicago sold its parking meters again, 46 to 3, and drivers pay until 2084 https://chicagoregister.org/chicago-parking-meters-sold-again.html https://chicagoregister.org/chicago-parking-meters-sold-again.html Business Wed, 30 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The council sold the curb a second time. The city got a check, a slice of whatever is left after the debt, and a promise to be asked next time. Abu Dhabi got out. A 99-year lease on 440 acres of Chicago lakefront, and nobody has read it https://chicagoregister.org/south-works-ground-lease.html https://chicagoregister.org/south-works-ground-lease.html Business Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Blue Owl kept the ground. Related Midwest and CRG are building on land they will never own. The lease runs to 2124 and the terms are not public. Why the truck, the train and the gallon showed up in your grocery receipt https://chicagoregister.org/the-truck-the-train-and-the-gallon.html https://chicagoregister.org/the-truck-the-train-and-the-gallon.html Business Wed, 16 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Everybody is watching the stock. Nobody is watching the tank. A dome on slag, a tax bill on schools, and a team still called Chicago https://chicagoregister.org/a-dome-on-slag.html https://chicagoregister.org/a-dome-on-slag.html Business Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The Chicago Bears Stadium Saga, Part One. Who wants the new stadium, who pays for it, and what is buried under the Hammond dirt. A Burnham tower Brookfield bought for $306 million just sold for $41 million https://chicagoregister.org/twenty-nine-dollars-a-foot.html https://chicagoregister.org/twenty-nine-dollars-a-foot.html Business Tue, 15 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Twenty-nine dollars a foot for a full Loop block. Nothing about the building failed. Chicago cut its arts budget 15 percent, the only big American city that cut at all https://chicagoregister.org/the-farm-system-is-dying.html https://chicagoregister.org/the-farm-system-is-dying.html Arts Mon, 14 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 The farm system is dying. The money is uneven. That is the whole column. Everything else is the receipt. A quantum campus on the South Side will be taxed at the same rate as a bungalow for thirty years https://chicagoregister.org/south-works-tax-rate.html https://chicagoregister.org/south-works-tax-rate.html Business Sun, 13 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 Over a billion in public money, a thirty-year tax rate, and nothing signed with the neighborhood. Chicago’s pension funds hold 28 cents for every dollar they owe, the worst of any big American city https://chicagoregister.org/twenty-eight-cents.html https://chicagoregister.org/twenty-eight-cents.html Business Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 About fifty billion owed to retired cops, firefighters, laborers and clerks. About fourteen billion on hand. Matt Suhey, 1958–2026 https://chicagoregister.org/matt-suhey.html https://chicagoregister.org/matt-suhey.html Sports Sat, 12 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000 He was not the loudest Bear. He was the one who showed up.