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Ferrari Sheppard, Lil Durk, and other prominent locals took to Twitter to react to the film's first footage.

A new book pairs Michael Abramson’s photos of 1970s South Side juke joints with original poetry by Patricia Smith.

It's your last chance to watch this gripping film about Chicago’s sex workers.

Behind the Smile: A Story of Carol Moseley Braun’s Historic Senate Campaign By Jeannie Morris Agate Midway (September) Morris, a local sports journalist, vividly recounts Braun’s game-changing 1992 U.S. Senate...

Nate Marshall   Photo: Saverio Truglia Sitting at a table inside his favorite Harold’s Chicken Shack (No. 27, on the corner of 103rd and Halsted), poet Nate Marshall, 25, pauses...

From left: Claudia Rankine and Gillian Flynn   Photos: (Rankine) Josh Lucas; (Flynn) E. Jason Wambsgans/Chicago Tribune 1 Gloria Steinem and Roxane Gay The People's Church Women & Children First...

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"Jay Pharoah does one twenty times better than me, but I’m just being silly."

Margo Jefferson’s new memoir delves into her upper-middle-class upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.

Paul McCartney plays the hits, Travi$ Scott gets the cuffs, and Metallica triple-broadcasts its virtuosity.