Patty Wetli

ALBANY PARK - Families facing eviction from an Albany Park apartment building are taking a stand against gent…

Chicago's local "common" brick has gone from shabby to chic, and some of the city's most acclaimed architects…

Meet the Guy Behind the Facade of Instagram's @BrickofChicago. Once you've seen brick through Will Quam's eye…

Chef at Sweet Virginia’s Kitchen makes the pillowy, cinnamon sugar treat from her grandma’s recipe — and serv…

Block Bins is the newest entrant in the compost collection business. Can an opt-in approach to reducing food …

Newly arrived Venezuelans, part of a recent wave of immigrants fleeing their home country's chaos, are quickl…

Whose stories get told? Which histories get taught? Poet Eve Ewing views Chicago's 1919 race riots from a new…

Like the 1919 riots, the story of Jun Fujita has long been buried. The pioneering photojournalist is now emer…

Not talking about the 1919 race riots has been the Chicago Way for 100 years, but ignoring one of the ugliest…

There was a time when no night on the town in Bronzeville was complete without a stop at the Palm Tavern or P…

Malone was arguably the first recorded female African-American millionaire. Adjusting for inflation, her fort…

The Green Book listed places safe for black travelers to stay. But many of the businesses did not survive. "I…

Tthe Green Book, published from 1936 through 1967, was more than a list. It was a lifeline, an essential refe…

Chicagoans are purging their closets and homes, but all that stuff has to go somewhere.

In the middle of the busy holiday season, on a Sunday night when the Chicago Bears were squaring off against …

Meet the Venezuelan couple with a big dream: Turning "arepa" into a new word in English.

After being taught by the owner of Roseland's Old Fashioned Donuts, Devell Brittman opened D&D's Place, which…

CHICAGO - Great Britain's Prince Harry is paying a visit to Chicago on Tuesday to speak at the Obama Summit, …

LINCOLN SQUARE - Amundsen High School students and staff were called out of their classrooms Friday morning f…

NORTH MAYFAIR - A proposed $60 million strip mall, dubbed "Edens Collection," would bring retailers and resta…

NORTH CENTER - Like the old jingle says, "Ace is the place with the helpful hardware man," and for 145 years,…

LINCOLN SQUARE - After a string of assaults against women walking with young children in strollers, Lincoln S…

LINCOLN SQUARE - The Archdiocese of Chicago pulled the plug on St. Matthias parish's plans to build an additi…

LINCOLN SQUARE - The darkened windows of the Lawrence Avenue Sears are about to see the light of day for the …