Handsome, ambitious, and dead at 39, Howard T. Ricketts tried to unravel the mystery of a Mexico City epidemic.

When shopping for food was like visiting a natural history museum.

The University turns a former seminary into a new home for economics.

In an excerpt from his new book, I Speak of the City, Mauricio Tenorio Trillo chronicles the canine history of Mexico’s capital.

The art of telling secrets.

A fake journal goes on display in a real museum.

Many humanities graduates want to get published. This crew decided to become publishers.

More than 60 years after Studs Terkel’s television show was cancelled, Paul Durica “broadcasts” a new episode.

A former player traces UChicago’s oblong football history, from dominance to disappearance to happy coexistence with the school’s academic culture.

An architect rips out a synagogue’s “profane” lawn and grows 8,500 pounds of food for the hungry.

A bagpipe parade of writers and bibliophiles ends at the Seminary Co-op’s new store.

A last exploration before the Seminary Co-op makes its big move.