How Your Favorite Chicago Restaurants Have Pivoted in the Pandemic

In late October, when Covid-19 cases surged and updated restrictions were announced, we wondered how local businesses would continue to survive. After months of barely making ends meet with capacity limits and outdoor dining, the restrictions on indoor dining combined with winter months and darker hours, are putting a new level of stress on the […]

Opinion: Is the Election Really Worth Giving Up Your Friends?

As part of our “Love Essentially” series, Jackie Pilossoph helps us navigate the complex world of relationships. Have a question that you would like her to answer? Contact her here, and it may be featured in an upcoming article! Like most Americans, my first thought when I woke up after election night was, ‘Who is our […]

10 Ways to Ease Your Nerves Through a MRI or CT Scan

As part of our “Love Essentially” series, Jackie Pilossoph helps us navigate the complex world of relationships. Have a question that you would like her to answer? Contact her here, and it may be featured in an upcoming article! Medical imaging might be one of the most dreaded ways to spend an hour: lying flat on […]

Lift the Voices and Dreams of Chicago’s Youth

Chicago Children’s Choir is a nonprofit organization that inspires and unites youth from diverse backgrounds to become global citizens through music.  Founded in Hyde Park in direct response to the Civil Rights Movement in 1956, CCC has grown from one choir into a vast network of in-school and after-school programs. Today, CCC serves nearly 5,000 […]

Erie Neighborhood House, A Bedrock Organization for Chicago’s Immigrant Community, Marks 150 Years of High-Impact Service

Erie Neighborhood House, the oldest operating settlement house in Chicago, has seen plenty of change in its time — but its essential support and services have remained a constant upon which Chicago’s immigrant community can rely.  Since 1870, the nonprofit has worked to provide the comprehensive aid which immigrant and low-income families in Chicago need […]