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A woman walks in front of the Crescent Garden at the Chicago Botanic Garden in July 2019 in Glencoe.

Chicago Botanic Garden to charge admission fee for first time in 50-year history

June 18, 2021 at 10:10 p.m.

At the start of its 50th-anniversary year, the Chicago Botanic Garden will do something it never has before: Charge an admission fee. Citing a need to increase revenues that predates...

Dreyana Grooms, 22, who grew up at the Dearborn Homes in Chicago is the subject of a film that begins shooting this summer and is named after her. A few years back, Grooms, a South Side teen who just been found not guilty of murder, met Gabe Klinger, a successful Logan Square filmmaker in his 30s. A friendship and mentorship blossomed, and Klinger and Grooms worked together to shape her life story into a movie script.

‘Dreyana Grooms’ aims to shoot in Chicago this summer. Dreyana Grooms is rooting for it and her second chance

June 23, 2021 at 7:32 p.m.

Posing for photographs on the grounds of the Dearborn Homes development, Dreyana Grooms is approached by a building maintenance worker who wants to let her know police have been towing...

People enjoy summerlike weather June 3, 2021, on the large patio at Recess in Chicago's West Loop.

Reopening day: At the brewery, the ballpark and elsewhere, it’s a mostly cautious move back to normal

June 11, 2021 at 11:30 p.m.

Not a whole lot will immediately change at her Forest Park brewpub now that the state has removed its COVID-19 constrictions, Katherine Valleau said midday Friday. For the first time,...

Réplicas de los aparatos ortopédicos de Frida Kahlo creados por los artistas con sede en Chicago Daniel Sullivan y Betsy Odom en exhibición en "Frida Kahlo: Timeless" en el College of DuPage en Glen Ellyn. (Stacey Wescott / Chicago Tribune)

Nueva exhibición de Frida Kahlo en DuPage es la más completa del área de Chicago en décadas

June 8, 2021 at 8:47 p.m.

La improbable exhibición de Frida Kahlo en el campus de un college comunitario del condado de DuPage tiene sus raíces en una situación aún más improbable: un esfuerzo por prevenir...

Replicas of Frida Kahlo's orthotic braces created by Chicago-based artists Daniel Sullivan and Betsy Odom on display at "Frida Kahlo: Timeless" at the College of DuPage in Glen Ellyn.

New Frida Kahlo exhibit in DuPage is Chicago area’s most comprehensive in decades

June 3, 2021 at 8:37 p.m.

The unlikely Frida Kahlo exhibition on the campus of a DuPage County community college has its roots in an even more unlikely situation: an effort to forestall international tensions on...

The Chicago Cultural Mile Association hosts the 20th Annual Memorial Day wreath-laying at the General John A. Logan Memorial in Chicago's Grant Park in 2016.

Illinois Civil War Gen. John Logan made Memorial Day a national holiday. Before that, it’s complicated.

May 28, 2021 at 10:52 p.m.

For a guy known for giving us Memorial Day, Gen. John A. Logan is not much remembered in these parts. Sure, protesters at the 1968 Democratic National Convention famously climbed...

Sydney Jackson, a University of Chicago student and activist, is seen at 63rd Street Beach in Chicago on May 19, 2021.

‘Just as much to celebrate’: Sydney Jackson shifts protest strategy away from anger and toward joy

May 21, 2021 at 11:32 p.m.

After helping to organize rallies following the police murder of George Floyd, Sydney Jackson is shifting their social-injustice protest focus from large-scale events to the more personal, and from expressions...

Chicago Bears quarterback Justin Fields warms up with his teammates on the first day of rookie minicamp at Halas Hall on May 14, 2021.

Epilepsy community says Chicago Bears’ Justin Fields revealing his condition is landmark moment

May 24, 2021 at 4:08 p.m.

Among the most striking facts about epilepsy is the combination of how common it is and how it has not previously had a very high-profile personality who is public about...

The patio at Burial Beer Co. in Asheville, North Carolina, in April 2021.

Road trip to Asheville, N.C.: A long way to go for some hikes and a historic home, but worth every mile

May 14, 2021 at 1:41 p.m.

Yes, Chicago to Asheville, North Carolina, is just a little too far for a long weekend's road trip. It's a good 10 hours of driving, longer if you have human...

A cook prepares a chicken sandwich at Chubby's Char House on May 12, 2021.

Takeout 25 has saved local restaurants in Oak Park. Now it’s flexing its spending muscle across the Chicago border, in Austin.

May 24, 2021 at 4:09 p.m.

As the COVID-19 pandemic dragged on last fall, Ravi Parakkat watched tensions rise in his community between restaurant owners desperate for revenue and officials trying to keep people from congregating...

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