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How LaVelle Sykes Built His Urban Fashion Empire
On friendship, sneakers, and being a Black man with a plan in a city that too often eats its own.
Chicago’s Arts Scene Has a Race Problem
Can a seven-year-old antiracism nonprofit solve it? The city’s biggest cultural institutions are betting heavily that it can.
How to Spend $100 at Capucine
A frothy new Bucktown boutique sprinkles in a little vintage flatware and local jewelry, and a whole lot of transporting joy.
How Julie DiCaro is Fighting Sexism in Sports Media
In her new book, the sports journalist speaks for female colleagues wounded by misogyny and bias.
Tackling the New Motherhood Taboo
Julia Fine’s second novel untangles the traumas of new motherhood, with a dash of the paranormal.
Tone Down That Wedding Dress
Ditch the grand ball gown (so out of place at a small dinner party). These local spots stock great off-the-rack selections — many with showstopping necklines that play well when you’re Zooming...
Dave Jordano restores dignity of Detroit in photo book
"Detroit" has come to mean so much beyond the name of a formerly great Midwestern city. It has been a metonym for America's industrial might, the rise of the middle...
2014: The year in A&E photography
It is our franchise and our pleasure in daily and Sunday A+E to cover the creative mind at work, and the fruits of its labor. In 2014 we saw artists...
Review: ‘Burn’ by Jane Fulton Alt
In 2007, when photographer Jane Fulton Alt was a Ragdale Foundation fellow in Lake Forest, she happened to observe a controlled prairie fire on the grounds. Captivated and compelled by...