Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

Brie Jamieson started cooking the recipes she watched her mom, grandma, and stepfather make in Evanston for her children as a way to root her itinerant military family.

The cast of Grantchester is returning for an eleventh season that will be the show's last. 

An orphanage is set to close, upsetting its residents at the same time as strange occurrences take place there, eventually involving the police. 

When a famous crime writer dies in his locked-from-the-inside apartment, Bea and Patience must figure out how it happened. 

Now in its 45th year, A Capitol Fourth is back with a concert and fireworks display that WTTW and PBS are broadcasting live from Washington, D.C. Here are the performers taking part.

The massive tax break and spending cuts bill currently working through Congress contains provisions that would be “catastrophic” to food assistance programs, says the Greater Chicago Food Depository, which helps feed people in need.

There's a new, longer trailer for the upcoming third (and supposedly final) Downton Abbey film out.

A romantic night with Meg is crashed when fellow vicar David becomes embroiled in a murder and the investigation comes to the vicarage. 

The team investigates a mysterious death inside a closed natural history museum, a place that both Patience and Bea's son Alfie love.

Two lifelong friends from Southeast Asia have opened Chicago's only sit-down Lao restaurant in Irving Park in order to share the food they grew up with and learned from their families. 

A long sequence in the fourth season of the popular show spotlights the details in Frank Lloyd Wright's home and studio in Oak Park, as well as two other nearby houses by the legendary architect. 

A Masterpiece series starring a contemporary version of Georges Simenon's legendary Parisian detective Jules Maigret is coming to WTTW and PBS this fall.

The third – and supposedly final – Downton Abbey film premieres in September, and a trailer has been released. 

While Larry, Miss Scott, and Alphy all navigate romantic troubles, the detectives investigate a scooter accident that appears staged. 

Bea wants Patience on her team as they look into the linked deaths of several psychiatrists, but Patience fears the loss of routine, and has an undisclosed connection to the case.