Elizabeth Taylor

Chicago Works Edited by Laurie Levy Morton, 229 pages, $14.95 paper This nifty collection of stories set in and around Chicago, by Chicagoans, bursts with the imagination of many authors...

For this week's special fall fashion issue, senior features editor Brenda Butler identified the trends and discerned a sleek, minimalist influence on the apparel. Art director David Syrek set out...

This month marks the 40th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech delivered from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial. King's crusades across the nation have...

As summer draws to a close, library books are returned, lemonade stands go into storage and eyes turn toward the school year. Excitement builds with the acquisition of backpacks, shoes...

Stories and Poems for Extremely Intelligent Children of All Ages Selected by Harold Bloom Scribner, 573 pages, $27.50 If two ideas are held dear--that all children are gifted and that...

This is the story of two Ford brothers. They shared whiffle ball, their mother's lasagna and even headed East to the same college. They have curly hair, love to debate...

Farewell to Model T, and From Sea to Shining Sea By E.B. White The Little Bookroom, 40 pages, $12.95 Just out of college in 1922, E.B. White took to the...

Growing up in south suburban Dolton, the fourth of five children, Tribune media and marketing columnist Jim Kirk watched the very first episode of "Sesame Street," which aired on WTTW....

During the summer months, every day looks like holiday season on Michigan Avenue. There may be no bright lights twinkling, no familiar Salvation Army bells ringing, but one element defies...

As the rebuilding of Iraq, the scavenging for historic artifacts and the search for weapons of mass destruction continue, the Magazine looks homeward, to reverberations of the conflict here in...