Late this spring, when the news media began widely reporting that U.S. Border Patrol agents were carrying out an official policy of separating undocumented children from their parents, a public outcry erupted and activists sprang into action. At that moment, Maria Woltjen could be forgiven for thinking, What took you so long? As the director … Read more
Like a time bomb, anaphylactic shock must be defused before it destroys. There’s only one way to do so: a shot of epinephrine. But 13-year-old Annie LeGere didn’t have the lifesaving drug with her when, in August 2015, she started to have trouble breathing at a sleepover in her hometown of Elmhurst. No one knew … Read more
People would tell me, ‘Chicago is a pro sports town. You’re not going to get anywhere with college basketball,’ ” says Porter Moser, coach of the Loyola University men’s basketball team. “But I thought, Why not us?” Never mind that the last local college team to make the NCAA Final Four was DePaul in 1979 and, … Read more
Rebecca Makkai never set out to write a sweeping epic about Chicago during the height of the AIDS crisis. That underdocumented chapter of the city’s history was supposed to be merely the backdrop of a single character, a gay man living in 1980s Boystown, in her third novel. But as Makkai got deeper into researching … Read more
These seasonal fairs fuse shopping with entertainment (and booze!) to take the chore out of gift scrounging.
As of Tuesday, the state’s Democratic Party is in its most powerful position since 1840.
Chance the Rapper teamed up with Connie’s Pizza to sell “3”-shaped pies benefitting his charity, SocialWorks. How might other Chicagoans join forces with food brands?
Chuy Garcia may be headed to Washington, but his local influence is bigger than ever.
Underwood’s win in an overwhelmingly white district yet again shows Illinois’s openness to electing black politicians.
At one point, now-notorious Chicago gang leader Jeff Fort’s future looked bright.
