A foot in the kitchen door
Kitchen workers--all of them Mexican--huddled around a man who flipped sausage chunks onto a deep-dish pizza with the lightning-quick wrist snap of a blackjack dealer. Wearing a crisp Lou Malnati's...
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Two sides of the American dream
More than 30 years ago, in a regal Wheeling restaurant called Le Francais, two Mexican immigrants turned to escargot, foie gras and other French delicacies to find the American dream....
Blending cultures, flavors
At Midori, a sushi restaurant on Chicago's Northwest Side, Korean-American businessmen walk past the hanging paper lanterns, remove their shoes and enter a traditional tatami sitting area surrounded by Japanese...
Boy falls through stairwell on porch
As 9-year-old Kaysha Madison tailed her younger brother from their third floor apartment Monday morning, she turned to shut the door as he stepped onto the wooden stairwell. She heard...
Housing costs busting family budgets
Maria Elena Salvedra and her husband bought their first home, a two-flat in the Pilsen neighborhood, in 2001. The next year, as they scrambled to keep up with payments, they...
Violence shatters area on upswing
A burst of violence in the Logan Square area early Friday morning shook residents of the Northwest Side community, resulting in a call for a communitywide anti-violence vigil on Saturday....
Cooling down a season of violence
In some Chicago neighborhoods, barbecue decks sit empty during the summer. For children, school vacation is a time to stay indoors, away from the threat of gunfire. Even a walk...
Perilous spot on Fox claims 3 more lives
As the summer kayaking season kicked off its first weekend, three men drowned near the Glen D. Palmer Dam on the Fox River in Yorkville, a notoriously dangerous spot that...
As activists rally, priests show support by fasting
As hundreds of activists held small rallies in Cicero and the South Chicago neighborhood Monday to support immigration reform, others picketed the district offices of two congressmen who support stricter...
As activists rally, priests show support by fasting
As hundreds of activists held small rallies in Cicero and the South Chicago neighborhood Monday to support immigration reform, others picketed the district offices of two congressmen who support stricter...