Chris Bentley

Chris Bentley is a Chicago-based journalist, documentary filmmaker and photographer. He is interested in clim…

WBEZ's Curious City tells how engineers built a forest of skyscrapers on soil so soggy they compared it to je…

For more than three decades, the vacant Sheraton Hotel loomed over City Hall in Gary, Indiana, a billboard fo…

In 2013 Curious City took on a high-minded question from Minneapolis resident Andrew Wambach. Wambach, now 30…

When architects Kathryn McCamant and Charles Durrett made their first pilgrimage to Denmark in the early 1980…

While many Americans still associate Tijuana with drug cartels and debauched excursions into Mexico, the bord…

Nelson Soza left his native Santiago, Chile, a hardened cynic after enduring the dictatorship of Augusto Pino…

While Ebola panic sweeps the nation, a far more prevalent public health problem has many experts more concern…

Blazing the Midwest's Biggest Trails Project: Steve Buchtel pitched the 26-mile Cal-Sag Trail, which will sti…

A novel approach to keeping phosphorus out of one Wisconsin river could be a model for communities across the…

A look behind the grim but practical reality of dealing with the city’s ongoing violence problem

In 14 years, LEED has gone from fringe to mainstream. But will it be lost in the latest horizons for sustaina…

Rahm’s strongest potential challenger is out of the race. Here’s a look at what that means for Chicago’s 2015…

These signs are meant to save lives, but is everyone getting the message?

It's telling that 20 years after the United Nations acknowledged the threat of human-driven climate change, w…

Elizabeth Kolbert examines whether humans are causing the planet's upheaval or are victims of their destiny

Even through Locus’ waves of layered electronica and noise, which are deeper and more powerful than on Chicag…

Steve Ediger says he's not an avid fisherman, but he has cast a few lines. When he was growing up, his grandf…

After 16 years in a nondescript bungalow, Brad Lynch was tired of being the architect who hid his own house.

A Dutch Approach to Flood and Drought Management Takes Root in St. Louis

This summer's drought has continued to draw down water levels in Lakes Superior and Michigan-Huron (hydrologi…