Lynette Smith 
Not all pollsters were predicting a slim Paul Vallas victory going into the April 4 mayoral runoff. IZQ Strategies had Brandon Johnson in the lead — and by an eye-opening 5 percentage points. Once mail-in votes were tabulated, that forecast wasn’t far off: Johnson wound up with 52.1 percent of the vote to Vallas’s 47.9. … Read more
Photographer Christian K. Lee’s portraits offer a fresh view of Chicago’s Black gun owners.
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The city’s most buzzed-about restaurants this month
Outdoor entertaining makes a stylish return.
Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month
Mark Guarino’s new book, Country and Midwestern, looks back at when our city was a country music capital. Here’s what we learned.
