Homeless And Then Displaced: Latest On The Uptown Tent City
‘Morning Shif’t talks with WBEZ reporter Odette Yousef about the latest on what’s been known as Tent City in Uptown.
‘Morning Shif’t talks with WBEZ reporter Odette Yousef about the latest on what’s been known as Tent City in Uptown.
So you might know Chicago as the home of the blues and deep dish pizza but did you know it’s also a capital of dance innovation?
In popular culture, Chicago’s culinary delights and food history often get boiled down to deep dish pizza, Italian beef and our seven-topping hot dog, but the city has always been a food mecca with nationally noteworthy restaurants, hidden hometown gems and food companies serving a neighborhood clientele (think Margie’s Candies) to the entire world (think the William J. Wrigley Company). A hefty new tome from the University of Illinois Press seeks to take a survey of Chicago’s foodways and culinary history from its earliest days to the present. The Chicago Food Encyclopedia includes entries on everything from the now-defunct supermarket chain Dominick’s Finer Foods to Ovaltine to Otto Schnering, the so-called “U.S. Candy Bar King.” Morning Shift talks with Carol Mighton Haddix and Colleen Taylor Sen, two food journalists who are co-editors of the encyclopedia.
In a wide-ranging interview, Rauner talked about the long-running budget impasse and what happens if state workers stop getting paid.
Here’s a project for you: walk around the city, particularly the parks, and see how many statues of notable women you can spot.