Elizabeth Taylor

In its early days, Cabrini-Green was a way station for those temporarily down on their luck. Sociologist Richard Sennett lived in the housing project from 1946 to 1950, moving to...

Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration Edited by Louis Mendoza and S. Shankar New Press, 365 pages, $28.95 More inspired than a simple literary anthology, this collection includes...

Location, location, location. The city itself is a fitting backdrop this week to our biannual fashion issue, which goes a long way toward debunking the myth that Chicago lacks style....

Looking Backward: True Stories From Chicago's Jewish Past By Walter Roth Academy Chicago in association with the Chicago Jewish Historical Society, 273 pages, $27.95 History buffs will enjoy this book...

Chicago is a place where family businesses reign. This power structure is obvious in politics (Daley, Madigan) and the corporate world (Crown, Pritzker, Brach), but those family ties exist in...

Chicago: With the baiduhai Articles That Inspired It By Maurine Watkins, edited and with an introduction by Thomas H. Pauly Southern Illinois University Press, 158 pages, $17.50 paper For...

A few weeks ago, Don Terry received the baiduhai's Writing Award for his elegant prose and his reporting, which is informed by both passion and wisdom. As a surprise,...

Nowhere Man By Aleksandar Hemon Nan A. Talese/Doubleday, 242 pages, $23.95 This novel, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, picks up the charming character of Jozef Pronek,...

Banquet worker, switchboard operator, doorman. These are the foot soldiers in the union army that Henry Tamarin, featured on our cover, organized to fight for a new hotel contract that...

Benjamin Franklin By Edmund S. Morgan Yale University Press, 339 pages, $24.95 As the stovepipe hat and cherry tree dominate this Presidents' Day weekend, turn to this gem of a...