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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“The idea of selling the Thompson Center is the right one, and hopefully someone buys the building and repurposes it,” the building’s architect, Helmut Jahn, told me when I spoke to him for a Chicago ...

Last month, Chicago published a big, beautiful giardiniera feature that looked at our city’s favorite condiment from every angle. For my part, I conducted a blind taste test of the most popular brands ...

Daniel Kraus didn’t mean to write his first sci-fi horror novel. In fact, the Evanston-based novelist never really knows what genre any given book he writes is going to pursue — and that’s what makes ...

Chris Sautter, who describes himself as Obama’s “first media consultant,” grew up in Wheaton, where he was a neighbor and buddy of John Belushi’s. Sautter, 62, eventually became a top strategist—he ...

The latest Chicago Crime Commission gang report is out, and it totals an enormous number of gang members in Chicago—68,000 or more. According to Jody Weis, who now runs the Commission, that makes ...