Chicago-based Magazine Journalist

I'm honored that my story about boxer Ed “Bad Boy” Brown was selected for the prestigious 2018 volume of Best American Sportswriting

I'm featured in the documentary now on Netflix about Rita Crundwell, the perpetrator of the largest case of municipal fraud in American history. As city comptroller of Dixon, IL (population 15,838), Crundwell stole $53 million dollars of public funds across 20 years.

I knew my Stepfather had been in World War II. I never knew what a hero he'd been.

The 23-year old slugger overcame cancer and an early-career slump that jeopardized his career. Now, back on track, there are high hopes that he could be the first piece in solving the puzzle of the Cubs 100-year plus curse.

Great story about one of the best magazine writers of his generation

The reclusive Chicago billionaire built an empire on stuffed toys—and now he’s narrowly escaped a prison sentence.

Sit back and listen in on a Range Rover ride to the West Side with breakout rapper and Renaissance nerd Lupe Fiasco. You’ll get an earful on history, sociology, anthropology, and the artist’s muses, from Tchaikovsky to Noam Chomsky to Ice Cube

For decades, researchers have searched for an immunity super booster that could hold back the tide of disease. In Indian spice bazaars, they may have found it.

Jagoffs. He's surrounded by friggin' jagoffs. -- A profile of tough guy private eye Paul Ciolino

NOAH’S ARC: From a shoot-from-the-lip goofball who floundered on court and aggravated his teammates to a fiery star anchoring the Bulls and drawing covetous looks from another team, Joakim Noah has accomplished one of the most dramatic turnarounds in pro sports

After launching the Playboy empire here in the 1950s, Hugh Hefner turned Chicago into a frontline of the sexual revolution, acting out his sybaritic fantasy life behind the walls of his mansion on North State Parkway. But as the freewheeling sixties gave way to the decadent seventies, things changed drastically for Hefner and the Gold Coast mansion he called home