The Art of Oxtails ($4.99 a Pound)
There’s a lot more to those familiar hand-painted grocery window signs than the message.
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A Vallas-Johnson Runoff Would Be an Epic Five Weeks
It’s Baby Boomer vs. Gen X, Back the Blue vs. Black Lives Matter; CPS leadership vs. CTU — and it could be quite the fight.
An Edgar Miller and Other Homes for Sale in Old Town
While it’s hard to believe today, Old Town in the 1920s and ’30s was once full of struggling artists living in run-down flats. It was during this time that former Art Institute of Chicago classmates Edgar Miller and Sol Kogen left their mark on a number of old Victorians, using reclaimed materials and transforming the … Read more
How to Save the L
Riders have been abandoning it due to safety and reliability concerns. What can be done to fix this civic treasure?
Chicago’s Lithuanian Opera Singer Still Needs an Audience
Arnold Voketaitis sang 14 seasons with the Lyric Opera, mostly in what he describes as “intermediate” roles — the priest in The Magic Flute, the police commissioner in Der Rosenkavalier, Dr. Grenvil in La Traviata. Such is the fate of the bass/baritone. The tenors get all the big arias, and all the girls. Voketaitis retired … Read more
Can a $30 Million Home Be a Bargain?
The Lincoln Park mansion was recently reduced 33 percent from its original $50 million asking price. It cost the owners $65 million to build.
Junebug Café’s Chicken and Sausage Gumbo
As they planned their Louisiana-inspired Junebug Café (which now has locations in Portage Park, Near North Side, and West Town), Jacqueline and Chris Murphy had no shortage of source material: Jacqueline was well versed in the region’s flavors through her French Creole grandmother, June, while Chris’s parents own Oak Park’s Cajun-influenced Poor Phil’s Bar and … Read more
Eve L. Ewing
The author and sociologist, 36, on learning to say no, writing Marvel comics, and being a fidgeter
“The World Must Hear Our Voices”
One year after Russia invaded their country, five Ukrainians who resettled here share their stories of frightening escapes and difficult adjustments.