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The Fine Arts Building is the last place in Chicago offering manually operated elevator rides to the public. What do we lose when those lift doors close for good?

The organization started as a way to fortify the citys intellectual culture. Now its looking to recruit younger members to carry on its traditions.

Hosts Zachary Carlsen and Jordan Michelman preview the upcoming Specialty Coffee Expo in Chicago, Illinois.

As impressive as his conversance with English history is Garner’s awareness of present-day trends. The “like” entry notes not only traditional uses of...

A fact is anything that is known to be true: the colour of a house, the balance of a bank account, a historical date. Fact checking,therefore, is the act of

Sometimes, yes. At least that’s one takeaway from the argument in a recent U.S. Supreme Court case, Boechler, P.C. v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

Save this story for later. It’s hard not to mythologize Bryan A. Garner. He is the Herakles of English usage. As a boy growing up in Texas, he lugged Webster’s Third New International Dictionary (Unabridged) to school one day to settle an argument with a teacher. When he was sixteen, he discovered “Fowler’s Modern English Usage” and swallowed it whole. By the time he was an undergraduate, he knew that he wanted to write a usage dictionary. Instead of going into academia or publishing,...