What we learned from a new book about a vigilante group that chased down local bootleggers and extortionists in the early 1930s.

Back in 2019, you wrote to Chicago priests, saying that “threats of broad enforcement actions by ICE are meant to terrorize communities.” You urged the clergy not to let them into churches without IDs ...

The ‘Top Chef’ winner’s new breakfast, lunch, and dinner café is just the versatile place the West Loop needed.

When I first started interviewing Chicago youth about their interactions with the police, I never expected that I would spend a year and a half embedded with one of the most notorious gangs in the ...

Invite some color into your life with Kalapriya’s Holi Celebration, held at Chicago Women’s Park and Gardens. Wear your ...

The first time I saw Kevin Coval read, I thought he was black. It was the fall of 2015, and I was sitting at the back of a dim Art Institute auditorium. Onstage, Coval had just joined a jazz sextet ...

Wilfred Benítez stands in the middle of a crowded ring at Hiram Bithorn Stadium, one of his home island’s largest venues. He’s wearing a robe with his name stitched on the back, awaiting the judges’ ...

It’s the diagnosis we all dread. But if you face it, you’ll want on your side one of these 543 doctors, chosen by their peers as the best in the six-county area.

What to do in Chicago this weekend. As a musician, the author had performed with some big acts in big venues. Then came the pandemic.

Last fall, my wife and I traveled with our daughter and her Indian inamorato to Mumbai, where he introduced us to some of his favorite restaurants. Among them was a famous Parsi spot called Britannia ...

Whenever I climb the worn, dimly-lit cement stairwell to Chris’s Billiards, the pool hall at Milwaukee and Wilson, I feel the ghost of Waterdog, the junky hustler who slept in a Lincoln Town Car in ...