1. Brown the beef: Heat an 8-quart stockpot over medium-high. Add beef and brown, breaking up with a wooden spoon, until cooked through, about 5 minutes. Drain, leaving about ¼ cup of fat in the pot, ...

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 ...

West Madison Street in Chicago was the flashpoint of the April 1968 riots. Decades later, the area is still dotted with vacant lots. Photo: Terrence Antonio James/Chicago Tribune This week marks the ...

The alt-rock icon is having a bit of an existential crisis. His solution? Put out an epic new album and spread some joy.

I really don’t follow the party too closely, because it’s become so irrelevant,” says Jim Nowlan, a former Republican state ...

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1 In designing the Uptown, more was more. “It outdoes your dreams,” rhapsodized an ad touting the theater’s 1925 opening. That wasn’t just hype. As documented in The Uptown: Chicago’s Endangered Movie ...

Local Korean restaurants have started offering dishes that cater to Muslim diners. Read more ...

What: Happy hour, with half-priced oysters and cheap drinks, is back, weekdays from 3 to 5 p.m. Why: You have a good excuse ...

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He was a ghost, in a way, the walking dead. Only he wasn’t dead, though he should have been, or would have been but for his own prescience. In a frozen corner of a park at an intersection in Des ...