Chicago chefs Beverly Kim and Johnny Clark on the high price of living the dream
Parachute, their beloved dining gem in Avondale, is dead. But the pioneering duo have set their sights on what comes next.
In seven short years, the savvy South Side dancer-choreographer has commissioned 10 new works and built a contemporary company fit for Chicago’s biggest dance stages.
The store closings started Tuesday morning and include two Dom’s Kitchen sites and 33 Foxtrot locations.
Since 2010, more than half – 53% – of mass shootings in Chicago have involved at least one victim younger than 20, shows a WBEZ analysis.
About 60% of people are interested in exploring green funeral options, more than ever before.
Developer Hilco and its subcontractors agreed to pay the money to neighborhood residents for the 2020 botched smokestack implosion.
After almost two centuries, the Indigenous nation is reestablishing the only reservation in Illinois.
A Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives facility is the latest effort to disrupt violent crime in Chicago, where police have been taking 12,000 guns off the street every year.
When people are science literate, they could be more health literate too.
The answer for non-Equity actors, it turns out, has gotten more complicated post-COVID.
Preckwinkle said she expects the Democratic Party will be united behind President Joe Biden as he seeks reelection.
President Biden has been trying to get young voters excited about his 2024 reelection bid, even though polls show they’re disappointed with some of his policies.
The U.S. Department of the Interior announced the decision Friday, placing 130 acres into trust for the Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation, giving the tribal nation sovereignty over the land after the U.S. auctioned off its land 175 years ago.
The Catholic church’s transparency on accusations of sexual abuse by clergy members, including the Rev. Mark Santo, remains inconsistent and lacking across the United States, clouding the extent of the crisis more than 20 years after it exploded into view.
The British conductor, who led nearly 700 Lyric performances of 62 operas, died in Chicago from leukemia.
Officer Luis Huesca, 30, was returning home from work about 3 a.m. in the 3100 block of West 56th Street when a ShotSpotter alert went off, police Supt. Larry Snelling said. No one has been arrested.
Milas is performing through May 5 at Steppenwolf Theatre’s Merle Ruskin Garage Space.
About 14% of those in the apprenticeship program found permanent full-time employment with the transit agency, a Sun-Times investigation found. Others, some strung along for years, remained in low-paying roles with no benefits.
The officer, a 30-year-old man, was taken to the University of Chicago Medical Center, where he died due to his injuries.
How do you know when a friendship has reached its expiration date? When is it time to diversify our social circle? We’re talking about all things hiring and firing friends.
The 30-year-old vibraphonist, who performs this weekend as VybeKat, has reinvented, and reinvented again, over his meteoric jazz career.
Lenny Bruce. Richard Pryor. Lily Tomlin. They all honed their craft at the famed Mister Kelly’s, which has been revived in a new exhibition.
Too often, we think segregation is self-selection. Instead, it’s the end result of a host of 20th-century laws, policies, ideas and practices that deliberately shaped our region.
The fiery debate exposed divisions within the City Council over the mayor’s first major development plan and the increasing cost of supporting migrants.
Tensions rise between top cop and oversight agency. City Council delays vote on Mayor Brandon Johnson’s bond plan. Protesters block the road to O’Hare.
Bird experts say temperature fluctuations could impact available food supply and the timing of arrivals.
Evans has ties to a 19th-century massacre of Indigenous Americans, but trustees argue he wasn’t “directly culpable”
Psychologist Sylvia Perry studied conversations between white parents and their school-aged children to understand prejudice.
Commissioners widely supported sending cash to the city, but raised concerns about making sure the city uses the money for its intended use.
Mr. Coleman led countless demonstrations in his six decades as an activist.
‘The National Barn Dance’ radio show broadcast out of Chicago predates the Grand Ole Opry.