CHICAGO — Norman Rockwell’s “The Dugout,” a classic portrait of slumped Cubs, dejected Cubs, defeated Cubs, a morose team resigned to an existential slog of failure, now hangs in the Art Institute of Chicago. It was gifted to the museum ... .
CHICAGO — The other day the author Sara Levine asked me to meet her at a dog beach in Evanston. I didn’t have a hard time finding her. She said she would be wearing an orange cap and she was ... Seriously. It was bonkers ... My first thought ... It’s a pit bull.
The house on Pratt Boulevard goes by many names. Most neighbors call it Candyland. The Rogers Park kids who once flocked here every day after school for art classes thought of it as the clubhouse of the Battling ButterflyBrigade... 19, 2026. (Eileen T.
It’s hard to say if Daisy Hernández has the best timing in the world or the worst. She thought about the question one morning, in her office at Northwestern University, where she is an associate professor of creative writing ... 17 ... Consider ... Consider ... 17.
ROME (AP) — Instruments made from smugglers’ boats that brought migrants to Italy’s shores told their tale of desperation and redemption in a special performance at a prison in Milan on Saturday, in front of the inmates who made them ...Source .
Claudia von Thrift — which is not her real name, but we’ll get to that — wants to make something clear. She is not one of those don’t-buy-anything-this-Christmas people. She is not looking to take an activist stance against conspicuous consumption.
CHICAGO — There are 49 books in front of me, stacked like colorful bricks in a wall. These are the 49 books I didn’t include in the Chicago Tribune’s 10 BestBooks of 2025. If you’re curious about the recipe ... .
My favorite part of the holidays is giving someone a book. I’m that person who gives everyone on my list a wrapped book then I joke it’s a box of socks. My least favorite part of the holidays, however, is ... .