Stories by Daniel Hautzinger

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. 

It can be difficult for small businesses such as restaurants to access bank loans, but regulation crowdfunding allows supporters to literally invest in a business, with the chance of making a small profit in the process.

Continue to enjoy summer as it winds down with a recipe for fish tacos from Cook's Country that comes from the show's upcoming new season and is inspired by a version served at a San Diego restaurant. 

A kindly officer finds Will and lets Geordie know, but the two policemen soon find themselves investigating the death of a married couple before Geordie can bring Will back home to Bonnie and her coming baby. 

As Elliot continues to make Geordie's life miserable in order to force him into retirement, Geordie begins thinking he might accept it, since Cathy has been promoted. Meanwhile, Larry investigates a poisoning. 

Farman is appalled at Ridley's breach of protocol in investigating the death of Patrick Elliott, but the case soon turns out to have a surprising connection to the death of Ridley's family that puts Ridley himself in danger. 

Mike Alesi and Jennifer Pou-Alesi got married just before the COVID-19 pandemic shut down the world. They decided to start cooking the food of Pou-Alesi's home country of Malaysia, a story recounted in a new short film. 

D.I. Ray makes a shocking, devastating discovery as she closes in on a suspect in her investigation, and once again puts herself in danger as she wraps up her portion of the case.

A death at Leonard's halfway house looks like a suicide but could be a murder. It casts suspicion on all of the residents, and threatens to shut down the house while causing a rift between Leonard and his friends.

Goodwin worries that Ridley is making a case where a man was thrown from his tenth floor apartment personal because of a connection to the man who killed Ridley's wife and daughter.