Heather Schroering

The chocolate peanut butter pie at the General, Saturday is a brilliant balance of sweet and tart.

Peanut butter-chocolate pie at The General

May 2, 2019 at 6:24 p.m.

Grandmothers are required to have a dessert specialty. From my Nanni, it was chocolate-peanut butter no-bake cookies. And from Mim-Mim, dense, creamy cheesecake, served exclusively on birthdays. Though I never...

There will be a rotating beer menu in addition to the cocktails and coffee. Thursday, July 14, 2016. (Kristan Lieb/For the Chicago Tribune)

3 all-day bars that help Chicagoans go from coffee to cocktails in a flash

May 23, 2019 at 7:36 a.m.

In a conventional world, coffee is sipped in the morning and cocktails in the evening. But conventions are just playing by someone else's rules. Three Chicago bars are catering to...

Boy, 11, wounded in shooting that killed stepdad: ‘I heard 2 shots … people don’t die from 2 shots’

May 23, 2019 at 4:21 a.m.

Clifford Marshall and his stepdad were "ride buddies.""I used to go everywhere with him," the 11-year-old says.When they weren't playing ball or videogames together, they'd ride up to Checkers for...

Members of the Chicago Police Department investigate the area where two people were shot in the 6400 block of South Eberhart Avenue on April 24, 2017, in Chicago.

Chicago passes 1,000 gunshot victims for the year, pace of violence close to 2016

May 23, 2019 at 4:21 a.m.

Two people were killed and five others were wounded over a single hour in Chicago on Monday as the number of gunshot victims this year passed the 1,000 mark. The...

$5,000 reward offered in March triple slaying in Gresham

May 23, 2019 at 4:20 a.m.

It's been five weeks since her son was found shot to death in a parked car in an alley, but Toni Watson has barely slept, her daughter said Thursday. Handing...

The University of Illinois at Chicago studies naked mole rats.

UIC study: Naked mole rats’ survival skill may help stroke victims, astronauts

June 5, 2018 at 8:49 a.m.

What's a naked mole rat to do when its subterranean burrow runs low on oxygen? A new study led by a scientist at the University of Illinois at Chicago has...

Hundreds of fish dead in McKinley Park Lagoon: park district

July 23, 2019 at 2:34 p.m.

Hundreds of fish turned up dead in the McKinley Park Lagoon on the Southwest Side this week, and hundreds more are schooling at the surface gasping for air because of...

3 who say they were targeted in Gliniewicz case file class-action suit

May 23, 2019 at 4:19 a.m.

Three north suburban men who said they were targeted as suspects in the 2015 shooting of Fox Lake police Lt. Charles Joseph Gliniewicz before authorities declared his death a staged...

Krystal Falkner and Curtis Clayton, parents of Adrian Clayton, one of two 12-year-olds who were shot in Old Town the day before, talk about their son at Lurie Children's Hospital onApril 12, 2017. Adrianwas shot in the chest and is recovering at the hospital.

Parents of boy, 12, shot in Old Town say older boys used him as shield: ‘It’s messed up’

May 23, 2019 at 4:18 a.m.

Curtis Clayton and Krystal Falkner don't feel safe in Old Town. Their Marshall Field Garden apartment faces North Hudson Avenue, but they say gangbanging and drugs keep them and their...

‘They just kids. This is crazy’: 2 boys on spring break among 3 shot in Old Town

May 23, 2019 at 4:18 a.m.

Two 12-year-old boys on spring break and a man in his 60s were shot in the Old Town neighborhood on the Near North Side, among at least 14 people shot...

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