Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

Eager parents decide that they cannot give a daughter born with spina bifida what she needs, while Joyce helps two antagonistic neighbors living in a squalid estate.

St. Christina's in Mount Greenwood has been hosting volunteer-run fish fries for 30 years in the basement of its school, providing a gathering place for the neighborhood.

Jeanne manipulates the Cardinal Rohan in furtherance of her plan to acquire a diamond necklace while Antoinette sets about acquiring a property of her own for protection, lest something should happen to Louis. 

While Henry starts to despair of having a son with Jane Seymour, rebels in the north cause further despondency – and rage, which searches for a scapegoat in his court. 

Trixie helps an expectant mother just released from a psychiatric hospital while the nurses try to track and treat an outbreak of gonorrhea in Poplar. 

Hailee Catalano grew up eating Italian beefs and giardiniera, and was disappointed at the lack of Chicago-style giardiniera outside the city. She has a recipe for it in her new cookbook, By Heart.

Nominations have been announced for the prestigious 2025 James Beard Awards that recognize people and businesses in the United States' food and hospitality industry. Chicago has five nominees this year.

As the threat of high tariffs on wine and alcohol from the E.U. and American whiskey in the E.U. loom, the beverage industry warns that, "It's going to hurt."

Beaumarchais convinces Louis to allow a performance of his play The Marriage of Figaro, then creates more drama through his casting of Marie Antoinette in it.

The king tasks Cromwell with finding beneficial matches for his daughter and niece, but a secret affair is soon discovered, while Cromwell revisits a figure from his past as a servant of the cardinal. 

Protests complicate an already complicated birth, while a religious family's belief in an immaculate conception tries the midwives. And Roger's mother disapproves of Nancy as they get engaged. 

Make a classic, rich bread for Easter. 

Make a nutty treat for your nature-themed celebration with this sweet and crunchy acorn dessert.

“It was not just that it was not represented, it was misrepresented,” says the restaurateur behind Ambar of the region as he opens his first location outside Washington, D.C. in the U.S.

Rendang Republic has a take on a Chicago dog featuring Indonesian flavors as well as its namesake rendang, one of Indonesia's national dishes, in the style of Italian beef. It's the first brick and mortar from a chef who has worked to popularize Indonesian food in pop-ups.