November 2017: Best of Chicago authors Welcome to the Movie Business:

Welcome to the Movie Business: Notes from the making of Newcity's first movie

So we played the All-Star Baseball board game in our basements

"There’s the old idea of Socratic ignorance in which true wisdom is knowing the vastness of what one hasn’t learned

we will not create more

" an original graphic story by Chana Goldbloom

November 2017: Best of Chicago authors Welcome to the Movie Business:For 25th anniversary of Best of Chicago, we the essayists in our original edition to revisit Chicago today. Hope and Disillusion: Chicago Helped Me Grow Up by Dale Eastman Indivisible Landmarks: The Signs of the Street Clinging to its Character by Ray Pride Never A Stranger: Eight Cities On, Chicago Remains My True Love by Stephen Rodrick Pictures with Bite: Is Chicago the Hollywood of Food Photos? By Ted C. Fishman And a cover by our art director in