Chicago’s great park opened four years late and everyone forgot about the delay. Charlotte’s council is arguing over six weeks for its airport. … A morning walk, a bridge, and the faceless “they” who build cities.

A new UNC Charlotte survey finds a region that’s satisfied today and doubtful about tomorrow. What’s behind the gap, and the case for practicing optimism anyway.

9 Charlotteans in their 80s and 90s, and the parts their resumes leave out.

Don and Sally Olin spent a decade helping Charlotte families care for their aging parents. Then they became the clients. On growing old in a young city, and who catches you.

Charlotte has about seven PR pros for every journalist. The gap between who can design their message and who can survive a bad one shapes everything you know about this city.

Queen City Nerve closed last week, eight years after rising from Creative Loafing’s ashes to become Charlotte’s new alt-weekly. Here’s what actually happened, and what Charlotte will miss about it.

Dae-Lee Arrington is mounting a campaign to reconnect the people who run Charlotte — before the city’s biggest decisions arrive this fall. He started by asking nine of the city’s most accomplished artists to make a song.

At The Pauline Tea-bar Apothecary, a no-WiFi sanctuary in west Charlotte, Sherry Waters built a place that makes people say: I needed this.

Six Charlotte spots to work remotely and actually get things done — from a West Side archive to a med-school coffee bar.