Tag: Feature

With the explosion of interest in homegrown produce, finding enough farmers to supply our markets has become a full-time job.

John Peterson didn’t get along with his neighbors, but he refused to move even after he practically lost the family farm. Now he runs a successful organic farming operation–and his neighbors still don’t like him much.

The Reader’s Guide to Subscription Farms

Our Section 3 regulars have made their lists. Even though some of them don’t believe in lists, man.

Chicagoans open a chapter of the free writing and tutoring program founded by Dave Eggers.

Mary Anne Mohanraj wants to create a support network for aspiring South Asian writers in Chicago. Step one: find aspiring South Asian writers in Chicago.

The Edgewater shop Kate the Great’s brings some new ideas to the used-book biz.

For three decades Alexander Polikoff has been pushing the CTA to keep the promises it made after a landmark desegregation case.

We know her ravishing renderings helped make Frank Lloyd Wright and other Prairie School architects make their mark. But Marion Mahony’s other contributions to the movement are still being revealed more than 40 years after her death.

Satisfy it at your friendly neighborhood state-of-the-art drag strip.

These Parts: How the birthplace of Laura Ingalls Wilder came to depend on one family-owned restaurant for its survival.

These Parts: Jack Deardorff and Ken Hough once came together to try to save a classic American machine. Now they don’t even speak.

These Parts: A battle for control of a small-town historical society gets ugly. Really ugly.

Nothing like driving a busload of Miss Daisys to make you appreciate the time in front of you.

For “Wounded in America,” an exhibit opening this weekend at the Peace Museum, photographer Robert Drea traveled around the country taking photographs of victims of gun violence. Writer Stephanie Arena collected their accounts of being shot. Here are some stories they found in Chicago. Nora Schneider Interior designer Shot March 5, 1999, at the Eisenhower […]