New Podcast Revisits Studs Terkel’s Division Street America
A team of journalists — including Melissa Harris and Mary Schmich — follow up with the families of seven Chicagoans from Terkel’s 1967 oral history.
Custom Placements: Culture Lead
Mikki Kendall
The activist author, 48, on segregation’s upside, spite’s role, and why Michelle Obama was wrong
Chicago Performers to Catch at the Puppet Theater Festival
Every January, our city becomes host to a veritable United Nations of Puppetry — and these acts are Chicago’s ambassadors.
Tress to Impress
Fresh from Broadway, director Whitney White returns home with a comedy set in an immigrant-owned hair salon.
The Chi-centric Ski Guide
Chicago isn’t anyone’s idea of a skiers’ paradise. But with more direct flights than any other big city to top U.S. slope destinations, maybe it should be. Here, six new draws.
Tracy Clark Finds Time to Write Thrillers
Making time outside of her day job as a journalist, the South Shore resident is releasing the third installment of her Detective Harriet Foster series.
