Cover Story:
Home sweet home for the homeless. For thousands of Chicagoans "living outside," home is still where they make it.
Politics:
DuPage Democrats have a chance to unseat Roskam, Trump’s health-care rubber-stamper The Sixth District congressman could be vulnerable in his 2018 reelection bid.
Food: The Lunatic, the Lover & the Poet invokes poetry in lieu of personality. Mike Sula reviews chef Jessica Nowicki and Sommelier Tom Powers’s new Randolph Street spot.
Plus: Maceo Haymes of the O’My’s on a work of genius by Quincy Jones, the Reader’s Leor Galil on a 1983 hip-hop single from a south-side high school, and more
Jerry "Iceman" Butler was an A-list soul singer, playing with Curtis Mayfield and Otis Redding. Today, he mulls taxes and health care as the longest-serving member of the Cook County Board of Commissioners.
The neon-lit bar at Lawrence and Broadway, now a legendary jazz club, has been around for 107 years—and has more stories than any tavern in town. Here are a few from the past three decades.
The city has a long history of opposition to real estate developments perceived as a conduit for African-American families, especially poor ones, to move into white neighborhoods.
The show that put black music on TVs across America got its start in Chicago—and even after it moved to LA, Chicago kept its own version running daily for nearly a decade.