Read about our locals and their favorite spots in the neighborhoods below: PILSEN Annie Novotny BERWYN Lisa Predko-Vasquez and Robert Vasquez LOGAN SQUARE The Langfords EVANSTON Jamie Anderson BRONZEVILLE Dee Hawkins ALBANY PARK Nan Cibula-Jenkins and John Jenkins ANNIE NOVOTNY PILSEN Although she admits Pilsen could use a bookstore, Annie … Read more
Gery Chico will score a key endorsement Monday afternoon from B. Herbert Martin, pastor of the Progressive Community Church at 48th and Wabash in the city’s Bronzeville neighborhood. Martin, 68, Harold Washington’s close friend and pastor, was raised in Mound Bayou, Mississippi and came to Chicago in 1967 to earn his master’s in divinity at Northwestern…
Rahm Emanuel’s residency challenge is heating up, and it will likely end up in the Illinois Supreme Court. Sitting on that top court is Justice Anne Burke, who is married to Ald. Ed Burke, a City Council heavyweight as chairman of the finance committee. Although he has not yet issued the endorsement, the 14th Ward alderman gives every signal of supporting one of Rahm’s serious challengers, Gery Chico…
Bestselling author Jonathan Eig tells the story of Stella’s Diner in Lake View
In the wake of the WikiLeaks document dump and the ensuing media frenzy, I wondered what I would find on Obama’s diplomatic appointees from Chicago. Of the four local Obama campaign donors who were rewarded with cushy ambassadorships—banker Louis Susman to England, lawyer David Jacobson to Canada, TV producer Charles Rivkin to France…
Forty memorable covers: the good, the bad, and the straight-up creepy
OH, YES, WE DID: Naked models, breakout moments, rampant rats: In 40 years, we’ve covered it all
When Rahm Emanuel, Carol Moseley Braun, and Danny Davis officially announced their candidacies earlier this month, there was something of letdown about it all—nothing much new in what they said or whom they introduced as members of their teams. The one surprise was Democratic state Sen. James Meeks. He was introduced by Andy McKenna, Jr., the former head of the Republican Party in Illinois and a failed candidate in…
December 2010: We celebrate our 40th anniversary!
Pilsen filmmaker Esaú Meléndez When 15-year-old Esaú Meléndez joined his family in Chicago two decades ago, thoughts of a life beyond the borders of his Bucktown neighborhood were as far off as the city—Mexico City—he had left behind. “I basically was in survival mode,” Meléndez, now 35, recalls. “I didn’t really think about opportunities … Read more
