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It’s Thursday, Chicago. A few Chicago restaurants achieved one of the dining world’s highest honors this week. The latest additions to the city’s Michelin-lauded restaurants were announced Tuesday and Indienne and Atelier earned their first stars, while Smyth was awarded its third star — the second restaurant in Chicago to have three stars, after Alinea. In theater news, “POTUS” at Steppenwolf ...

Good morning, Chicago. Robert Crimo Jr.’s upcoming trial on charges of reckless conduct is an unusual case, according to experts, prosecutors and defense attorneys. Only on a few occasions have parents faced prosecution for their child’s actions in a long and bloody history of mass shootings committed by young adult men in America. Crimo Jr.’s Lake County Court trial is scheduled to start ...

From the archives, Frank Koval's 1989 article presents a transcript of James Randi's lecture that year for the Manchester Skeptics

There's no doubt that when it comes to the matter of government agencies secretly dealiing with the worlds of the paranormal

When it comes to the matter of government agencies secretly working on the phenomenon known as Remote Viewing, most people will think of the CIA. That's not the case. It may come as a surprise to know that the FBI were involved, too, and as early as the mid-1950s. With that said, let's have a

In modern times, photography is ubiquitous. Nearly everyone has a camera in their pocket at any given time, sharing photos and posting them to the Internet at a staggering rate never seen before. Yet what we take for granted today has a long, often strange history, with many detours along the way into the truly odd. One of these is the pursuit of the idea that photographs can be taken of mental images, pictures taken directly from the mind, and here we get into a truly strange phenomenon that i...