A new book highlights Chicago’s pivotal role in both upholding and breaking baseball’s color barrier. Here’s what we learned.

Despite Chicago's determination to protect immigrants from Trump’s deportation efforts, the city is limited in what it can do ...

We dined with a Belgian friend who had just arrived from Europe where the two-course model holds tight. We looked at the menu ...

J onathan Capitanini remembers when, as children, he and his sister, Giovanna, would tear through Italian Village, their ...

Built in 1904 for Hunter Woodis Finch, who owned a coal company, the property was later the home of University of Chicago ...

For Chicago novelist Cynthia Pelayo, horror movies are therapy. “It’s just a way to process anxiety,” she says. “You see the scary thing, but the scary thing can’t hurt you.” ...

In honor of Chicago’s 188th birthday, residents can visit the 360 Chicago observation deck for free atop the John Hancock ...

Chicagoans were less beholden to Old World traditions than were New Yorkers, who hand-tossed their dough, just like their ...

Milwaukee’s South Side is for more than beer slinging. The Bay View neighborhood, along South Kinnickinnic Avenue, is my holy grail of offbeat boutiques. On a recent visit, I was tempted to get ...