This Bucktown bakery has been getting folks queuing around the block for hours. Owner Dan Koester has amassed quite a ...

Dr. Richard Baer had just completed his medical training at the University of Illinois at Chicago when he joined a south suburban psychotherapy practice. There, in a modest office with a view of 95th ...

After its debut in Brooklyn, the event relocates to the Second City September 13-20 for a full week of all things shaken and ...

The CEO of a Deerfield medical company has bought one of architect David Adler’s masterworks, becoming only the third owner of the Lake Forest mansion since it was finished in 1931. The sellers-the ...

Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old from Schaumburg, wakes up feeling sick. Her parents keep her home from school, and she takes some Tylenol. She was the first victim. Our office was notified, but there ...

A Tribune map from 1883 shows how railroads divided the country into four time zones from... no one knows exactly how many. ("Intercolonial Time" was created for the benefit of the Intercolonial ...

We're joined by dining critic Nick Kindelsperger to discuss all the old and new spots he's enjoying in the Loop as the ...

A historic home in Evanston designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee — Frank Lloyd Wright’s first employer and mentor — is on the market for the first time in nearly 30 years. Having last sold in 1996 for ...

1 Cicero, not Chicago, was dubbed the “wettest spot in the United States.” Agents discovered 20 separate large-scale stills in a single series of raids, reports John J. Binder in Al Capone’s Beer Wars ...

The International Museum of Surgical Science occupies a 106-year-old French-style mansion at 1516 N. Lake Shore Drive, on the Gold Coast. Inside are terrifying artifacts of pre-modern medicine: a 16th ...

Demographic reality, and Chicago’s political tradition of building ethnic alliances, means Johnson has to rule as a mayor for all races. Armando L. Sanchez/Chicago Tribune In 1983, Ald. Richard Mell ...

Fifty-five years ago this month, as the Chicago Bulls prepared to take the court as the NBA’s newest expansion team, Tribune sportswriter Robert Logan was skeptical that professional basketball would ...