Summer Jackson profiles two institutions that were the first of their kind in Chicago: 175-year-old jeweler C.D. Peacock and 71-year-old steakhouse Gene & Georgetti.
With yesterday’s passing of television icon Andy Griffith, Wally Podrazik, curator of the Museum of Broadcast Communications, discusses Griffith’s large body of work.
Dedicated to deadly riots spurred by workers' rights protests in the 1880s, the Haymarket Memorial honors an important chapter in Chicago and American history.
A wedding gift from the very wealthy Potter Palmer to his young bride, The Palmer House is an opulent Chicago hotel with a history involving over-the-top romance.
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