Darcel Rockett

Friends Morgan Mullen, Per Ellingson, Angelica Ostaszewski, Eric Masters, and Karli Johnson gather at Cyd's in the Park restaurant in Peoria. Angelica Ostaszewski is a strong supporter of the Peoria community and the affordability of moving there.

Fed up with Chicago’s expensive housing and parking woes? One TikTok user’s suggestion: Move to Peoria.

June 28, 2022 at 12:48 p.m.

Karli Johnson got to live the Chicago experience for eight years. Johnson, whose pronouns are she/they, lived downtown with Buckingham Fountain in view. She lived in Lakeview. She even set...

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.

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...

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