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Meet Smithsonian Libraries and Archives’ new director, Chicago native Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty: ‘ I don’t think I will ever be bored working at the Smithsonian.’

June 21, 2022 at 11:10 a.m.

Chicagoan Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty won't let her 312 phone number go. She's had it since 2006. "I'm not losing my number," said the native West Sider. "I love my Chicago area...

Chicago PR strategist Laurie Glenn receives National Order of Merit from France

June 20, 2022 at 9:37 p.m.

Months ago, Laurie Glenn, founder, president and CEO of Chicago-based international political and public affairs consulting firm Thinkinc., was looking at her LinkedIn account on a Sunday when someone slid...

The Poetry Foundation and Poetry magazine announced Adrian Matejka will join Poetry as the new editor.

Meet Adrian Matejka, the first Black editor to lead Poetry magazine in its 110-year history

June 14, 2022 at 6:29 p.m.

Adrian Matejka, Indiana's poet laureate from 2018-2019, is still trying to figure out Chicago's bus system. He laughs about missing his bus heading to the Poetry Foundation on Superior Street...

Egusi stew in simmers on the stovetop at the Chicago home of Perteet Spencer and her husband, Fred Spencer.

Seeing more West African foods in grocery stores? Thank Hyde Park co-founders of AYO Foods for the shift.

June 9, 2022 at 11:12 a.m.

The frozen meals that AYO Foods creates and markets sit next to P.F. Chang's food in Target's freezer section. But AYO Foods founders, Perteet and Fred Spencer, would prefer their...

Danielle Tubbs of Tubby's Taste Vegan Cookies, at the Allies for Community Business' Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Lab celebration at The Hatchery in Chicago's East Garfield Park neighborhood on May 26, 2022. Tubbs was one of the award recipients at the event, receiving a grant worth $20,000 to grow her business.

Neighborhood Entrepreneurship Lab boosts small local businesses with grants, mentors: ‘Entrepreneurialism is the soul of American business’

June 8, 2022 at 10:06 p.m.

From interior design to sociology to three jobs at education nonprofits, Danielle Tubbs' journey to baking took a bit of a circuitous path. The Miami transplant, now an East Garfield...

Martine Caverl, directora ejecutiva y cofundadora de Ujimaa Medics, demuestra cómo tratar una herida de bala en Kokugonza Kaijage durante un taller en el Chicago Torture Justice Center el 25 de mayo de 2022.

¿Bolsa de papas fritas vacía para vendar una herida?

June 7, 2022 at 2:16 p.m.

Nubia Ptah sabía que la persona que yacía en la alfombra de colores no estaba realmente herida. Sabía que el torniquete de la camiseta que se estaba atando no era...

Dorene Wiese, an Ojibwe tribal member, demonstrates traditional dances, June 6, 2022, at Ebezener Lutheran Church in Chicago. Wiese plans on using her award money to start a scholarship fund for American Indian students in public colleges and universities.

10 Chicagoans awarded $50,000 for making a difference through art, justice and storytelling in their communities

June 13, 2022 at 4:26 p.m.

"Surprise." "Amazing." "Fantastic." "So exciting." All are words used by some of the 10 recipients of the Field Foundation's Leaders for a New Chicago award, announced Tuesday by the foundation,...

Lincolnwood Fire Department Lt. Gabby DeSantis teaches proper CPR technique during a training session for employees of the Levin & Perconti law firm in Chicago on May 31, 2022.

Quick-acting caddie saves golfer’s life with CPR. Now, the golfer pays it forward with CPR trainings.

June 8, 2022 at 2:31 p.m.

When Marsha Levin recollects Sept. 10, 2021, she can't help but get choked up. That was the day her husband of 48 years, Steve Levin, suffered a heart attack while...

Nubia Ptah lies on the ground while Jasmine, 19, ties a scarf around her leg as they practice a gunshot wound treatment scenario during an Ujimaa Medics workshop at the Chicago Torture Justice Center.

Empty potato chip bag to dress a wound? Community-led organizations use grants to address real-world violence situations.

June 7, 2022 at 8:57 a.m.

Nubia Ptah knew the person lying on the colorful rug wasn't really shot. She knew the T-shirt tourniquet being tied wasn't really necessary, and that the various invisible wounds weren't...

A man records the parade from his balcony with his American flag.

With the beat of a parade drum and the firing of a Civil War cannon, Rosehill Cemetery Memorial Day service draws hundreds

May 31, 2022 at 6:35 a.m.

The thank-you's for paying respects to the fallen and their families were abundant from military members past, present and future at the 58th annual Rosehill Cemetery Memorial Day parade Monday....

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