‘Everybody can’t up and run, everybody don’t want to leave’
Myron Lewis stood inside the doorway of his Champions Esquire Barber Shop applying a fresh coat of white paint. The space was quiet Thursday while he renovated, the normal hive...
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‘If you see Barack in this home, you know there’s hope’
Eight years after he departed the South Side for the White House, Chicagoans keep President Barack Obama present on the walls of their homes and businesses. "Let's see... I got...
<br>Winter’s first snow
"He's been waiting on the snow for the longest," Chris Ware said as he watched his 4-year-old son Christopher Jr. play Sunday afternoon in front of their Parkway Gardens apartment....
Witnessing Chicago history with the Cubs
I've never had a good answer to the question: What's the best event you've ever covered? It's going to be tough to top Game 7 of the World Series now,...
<br>Last rays of summer on the front stoop
Nine-year-old Eddion leaned against his mother, Angela Rankins, on the stoop of their East Garfield Park row house, asking for a quarter to follow his sister Iyana to the corner...
Colonel Robert R. McCormick’s office
A former Tribune Company boardroom with a vaulted, coffered ceiling of ornate mahagony on the 24th floor of the Tribune Tower on Sept. 26, 2012. Colonel Robert McCormick's office on...
Photographer’s view: Getting that Usain Bolt photo
Arriving at Olympic Stadium five hours before the men's 100-meter final, the photographers' moat was filling up. We were there to see Usain Bolt and Justin Gatlin battle in the...
<br>Shielded by angels at Peter Pan Home Day Care
Stepping out of her first-floor home day care center Wednesday afternoon, Damarie Roman sat on a handmade bench and watched a small commotion across the street. While Roman fussed with...
Neighbors mourn young mom slain hours after moving to their block
A dozen neighbors gathered Wednesday under a shady tree in South Chicago and mourned a woman they did not know, a young mother gunned down on their block just hours...
<br>Real Men of Englewood
When the softball team in lime green jerseys huddled Sunday in Ogden Park, they put their hands together over home plate with two messages. "One, two, three, Unleashed! One, two,...