As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These stills and footage show a city in crisis — and a city defiant.

As the feds cracked down on immigration in Chicago this fall, filmmaker Carlos Javier Ortiz’s camera was rolling. These ...

A poet reacts to the immigration crackdown in his hometown the way he knows best: through verse.

The answer dates back to 1703, when the French controlled the Illinois Country. That year a Jesuit group established its ...

ICE presence in Chicago has hurt the local economies in immigrant communities — which could in turn put a financial strain on ...

Fresh off their first album in nine years, the longtime rock innovators perform with the Chicago Philharmonic.

In this era of big, glitzy steakhouses, there’s nowhere we’d rather splurge than Tre Dita. Located on the second floor of the ...

Gene & Georgetti owner Michelle Durpetti and her husband Collin Pierson, receiving their invitation to the awards ceremony. Gene & Georgetti will receive the first-ever Iconic Restaurant of the Year ...

This year marks a quarter century since the closing of Medusa’s, Chicago’s most famous all-ages nightclub. Named after its gloriously coiffed owner, airline-employee-turned-impresario Dave “Medusa” ...

A fter the specialty shop Cowboys and Astronauts was launched eight years ago, its fans included Lake View couple Tyler Leasher and Brian Mamassian. “Anytime we came to Andersonville, we had to stop ...