Chicago Magazine - 09.2019

Photograph by CLARISSA BONET SEPTEMBER 2019 | CHICAGO 9

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Volume 68 Q Number 8

102

Modern Icon

Fifty years after Ludwig Mies van

der Rohe’s death, bold couture

finds harmony with the modernist

structures he designed.

72

MITCH TRUBISKY GROWS UP

All the Bears QB has to do now

is redeem 34 years of heartbreak.

By Nick Greene

78

THE DOUBLE TRIPLE

A triple transplant — heart, liver, kid-

ney — is incredibly rare. But over a

48-hour stretch, UChicago Medicine

did two back to back.

By Bryan Smith

86

POP CULTURE

A 100th anniversary tribute

to Green River soda, Chicago’s

quirkiest drink.

By Claire Voon

S.R. Crown Hall at

the Illinois Institute

of Technology

Wool and silk dress and crystal

earrings, prices on request, Louis

Vuitton, 919 N. Michigan Ave.

Alain Tondowski pumps,

farfetch.com for similar style.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS 2019

90 The Education

of Janice Jackson

The chief of Chicago Public

Schools is learning just how

hard it is to fix the

system she inherited.

By Marcia Froelke Coburn

96 Best Public Schools

The top 200-plus elementary,

middle, and high schools in the

six-county area, ranked.

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