Cincinnati Has a Bridge to Sell You
A massive new highway project in the Queen City could reclaim valuable downtown acres and right a decades-old racial injustice, but only if leaders act.
Breezewood, Pennsylvania: The Most American Place on Earth
The meme-able turnpike is a nexus of American culture.
Pittsburgh’s Broken Bridge is a Warning Sign
The now-collapsed Fern Hollow Bridge is a marker of what’s at stake in the infrastructure fight—and how far we have to go.
Riding the Fort Wayne Line
A proposed Amtrak route would restore passenger service between Chicago, Fort Wayne, Columbus, and Pittsburgh. Can new federal investment make it happen?
The Long Tail of Indiana’s Oil and Gas Boom
The state’s early industry remade more than the landscape.
Possible Landscapes
The future of the Calumet/south Chicago region will have to contend with its infrastructure and layered history.
Garfield Park: Perspectives
An excerpt from "The Chicago Neighborhood Guidebook."
Is the Mississippi River Ready for Climate Change?
Decades beyond its intended lifespan, the river’s shipping infrastructure faces an uncertain future.
Frackland
Documenting fracking infrastructure across the Great Lakes region from 15,000 feet.