Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

The Taste of Chicago is returning a bit late to Grant Park this year, thanks to the NASCAR race, but there are still plenty of restaurants and food trucks to sample. 

You don't have to go to a Korean barbecue restaurant, as delightful as they are, to enjoy the utterly satisfying—and quick-cooking—meal of beef bulgogi, which makes a great weeknight meal.

Van der Valk investigates the death of a promising freerunning champion. He has to do so with a new team, as Brad and Job have left, but trusting them is difficult. 

Professor T is looking for an excuse to avoid giving oral exams, so he's eager to help Lisa and Dan investigate an apparent arson in a building full of students.

DCI Jess James has impossible shoes to fill as she takes on Cassie Stuart's job, and an unexpected personal crisis on her very first day doesn't make things any easier. DI Sunny Khan immediately dislikes her. 

Hispanic Heritage Month starts on September 15 and runs through October 15. Explore the Mexican state of Yucatán, learn the stories of immigrants, and celebrate the successes and legacy of the labor leader Cesar Chavez in our special programming.

The Chicago Jazz Festival has been bringing outstanding musicians to the lakefront for over forty years, but before it, in 1965, DownBeat magazine hosted a festival at Soldier Field with the likes of John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, and Muddy Waters.

We have premiere dates for season four of both All Creatures Great and Small and Miss Scarlet and the Duke, as well as some first look images to give you a taste of what's ahead. 

The five-part Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland tells the personal stories of people who lived through the decades-long sectarian conflict known as The Troubles in Northern Ireland. "The underlying ambition or agenda for the series was always to try and build empathy," says the director. 

Onam is a harvest festival traditionally celebrated with a vegetarian feast known as sadya in the south Indian state of Kerala. Avondale's Thattu serves Keralite food, and hosts a sadya. “People are not aware of the diversity of Indian cuisine,” says the owner.

Matthew Desmond won a Pulitzer Prize for his book Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. His newest book tries to answer the questions, "Why is there so much poverty in the United States, and how can we finally end it?”

Less than two months before it premieres on WTTW and PBS, we have a trailer for season 2 of World on Fire that gives hints as to what action awaits our characters, old and new.

Great Performances is broadcasting a performance of Marin Alsop conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in her mentor Leonard Bernstein's "Kaddish" symphony at Ravinia, where she is chief conductor. The soprano soloist is a Chicago area native.

Sixty years ago today, Martin Luther King, Jr. visited a Century of Negro Progress Exhibition in Chicago. The event celebrated the 100th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, and featured a stage show by Duke Ellington.

Try a no-campfire-necessary s'mores treat from Christopher Kimball's Milk Street, which will soon see the premiere of its seventh season on WTTW. The recipe is adapted from one by Southern baking legend Cheryl Day.