Ranking the New Illinois State Flag Designs
It’s time to get rid of the old seal on a bedsheet.
Custom Placements: Front Page Lead
Tress to Impress
Fresh from Broadway, director Whitney White returns home with a comedy set in an immigrant-owned hair salon.
Shaw’s Signature Chopped Seafood Salad
This at-home version requires a fair bit of prep work, but readying the Louie dressing and salad components in advance cuts down on assembly significantly.
John H. White
The Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist, 79, on covering Ali and having a gun pointed at him
The Thrill of Korean Dining — and Shopping
Our critic checks in on Daebak and Gangnam Market, and explains why he might send that freebie back to the kitchen.
Five Homes for Sale Along Elston Avenue
Once a Native American trail, a traffic-clogged toll plank road, and now a popular alternative to the Kennedy Expressway, this major thoroughfare has some great available properties nearby.
Chrishona Hodges’s Life Sentence
At a crossroads when Chicago profiled him nine years ago, Jerryon Stevens is now in jail, awaiting trial on a murder charge. At home, his mother reckons with her son’s path — and tries to hold her fractured family together.
Home Baked
Baker Maria Alejandra Rivera is self-taught, but the perfectly tender bite of her pastel de nata proclaims her skill.
Quantum Leap
Preeti Chalsani leads the effort to create a hub here for the next generation of technology.