Five Homes for Sale Along Elston Avenue
Once a Native American trail, a traffic-clogged toll plank road, and now a popular alternative to the Kennedy Expressway, this major thoroughfare has some great available properties nearby.
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Chrishona Hodges’s Life Sentence
At a crossroads when Chicago profiled him nine years ago, Jerryon Stevens is now in jail, awaiting trial on a murder charge. At home, his mother reckons with her son’s path — and tries to hold her fractured family together.
Home Baked
Baker Maria Alejandra Rivera is self-taught, but the perfectly tender bite of her pastel de nata proclaims her skill.
Quantum Leap
Preeti Chalsani leads the effort to create a hub here for the next generation of technology.
Reflections on the Chicago Rat Hole, One Year Later
The man who drew attention to a rodent-shaped crevice in a Roscoe Village sidewalk looks back at the whimsy and woe it generated.
Sweet Buzz
It’s coffee, it’s dessert, it’s an affogato — a combination of ice cream and espresso. Here are four to try.
Our Most Popular Stories of 2024
In the last year, readers couldn’t get enough of our food-centric packages, the story of a suburb’s dark secret, and the careful craftsmanship behind knives and ramen.