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Bayard Rustin (1912–87) was instrumental in bringing Gandhi’s protest techniques from India to America in the 1940s, a mentor to Martin Luther King Jr., and an organizer of the seminal 1963 March on Washington.

Out in Chicago curators Jill Austin and Jennie Brier share the thrills of creating an exhibition on Chicago’s LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) history.

Join us as chefs Jenny Lewis and Heidi Heidecker dish out a sweet history of the Lake Michigan states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan.

According to chef Virginia Willis, one of the South’s grandest culinary belles, Southern "exceptionalism" is the notion that the South is a place unique and distinct from the rest of the world.

We all know the saying, "you are what you eat." How does that meaning change, though, as biotechnology exerts ever-greater influence on farming and the food chain? What are the ethics of genetically engineering food, of creating seeds unable to reproduce, or using hormones in livestock feed?

Eleven individuals and four organizations will be inducted in November into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, the country’s only known government-sponsored hall of fame that honors members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.

Eleven individuals and four organizations will be inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame, a government-sponsored hall of fame that honors members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) communities.