A spirited Mavis Staples cover of Tom Waits‘s “Chicago” gives us reason to muse on music, migration, and our city.

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Old Style, brewed since 1902 in Wisconsin, has been closely associated with Chicago since 1950, when it became the official ...

From everyone’s favorite high school choir to a certain holy father, these honorees brought pride to this city in a ...

6 Emily Sachs Wong @properties Christie’s 227.4 7 Sarah Leonard Team Legacy Properties 182.5 8 Schiller Team @properties Christie’s 139.7 9 Ben Lalez Team Compass 138.4 10 Leigh Marcus Team ...

Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss, who is running for Congress, had a succinct message for what he saw as the invaders: “Get the ...

Nepotism in politics is back in the news, if it ever actually left. Alderperson Walter Burnett Jr. is resigning from the City Council, and hopes to see his 29-year-old son, Walter III, appointed to ...

The Far Northwest Side is, mostly, indistinguishable from the surrounding suburbs. Get off the UP-NW Metra at Norwood Park, walk the mile around Circle Drive, and you might think you’d ridden all the ...

Rachel Cohen knows the precise moment something clicked in her. It was a Thursday in March, and the 31-year-old attorney was riding the bus home from the West Loop office of Skadden, the big law firm ...

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An unexpected blockbuster, this modern fantasy involves a romance and marriage between Henry, a librarian at the Newberry Library, and Claire, an artist. They first “meet” when Henry is 28 and Claire ...

50 local classics everyone must tryBy Carly Boers, Amy Cavanaugh, Cate Huguelet, John Kessler, Ximena N. Larkin, Sarahlynn Pablo, Titus Ruscitti, and Audarshia Townsend ...