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An Uptown butcher shop and market has evolved into a forum for East African feasting.

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Chicago chefs pay edible tribute to their culinary mentors

We asked some of the city’s top chefs to create a dish to honor a person who influenced their cooking. The exercise stirred many kitchen memories, about everyone from Rick Bayless to dear ol’ mom.
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With hushed delicacy, Joan Shelley unleashes her most poetic and empathetic collection of songs yet

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Shorts, sharp and shocking, at the Chicago Underground Film Festival

Five days’ worth of features and short subjects screen in the festival’s 24th edition.

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Philadelphia pianist Brian Marsella brings a kaleidoscopic touch to the music of John Zorn

By Peter Margasak | 05.26.17
Mel Brooks, Bike the Drive, and more things to do in Chicago on Memorial Day weekend

By Brianna Wellen | 05.26.17
Chicago's population decline continues for the third year in a row, and other news

By Kate Shepherd | 05.26.17
Vocal-forward Chicago new-music group Fonema Consort celebrates its second album Saturday

By Peter Margasak | 05.25.17

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Cover Story: The poop scoop on festival season. Service Sanitation porta-potties have become a ubiquitous sight at Chicago’s outdoor concerts. And even if you don’t think you want to, you’re about to learn about the business that put them there. Politics: Rising Star reveals a young Barack Obama who’s all too human, says Ben Joravsky. Arts & Culture: American Writers Museum is just a dead writers’ society. A new “national” institution presents a touch-screen literary history.

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Chef Sarah Rinkavage pays tribute to her culinary mentor, Jason Hammel

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Palmisano Park provides uncommon sanctuary from the busy city streets

Mount Bridgeport and the surrounding land offer a needed escape.

By Brianna Wellen | 05.17.17
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