When Evanston resident Rocio Mancera moved to Evanston 22 years ago, Hispanic Heritage Month had been an official holiday for over two decades in the United States. But, celebrations in Evanston were few...
5411 Empanadas, a Chicago area empanada restaurant, has plans to open up shop on Davis Street this spring.
5411 was named after the international dialing code for Buenos Aires, Argentina, the owners’...
When Chicago resident Pradhan Balter (McCormick ’72) opened his first restaurant in downtown Evanston back in 1982, he said it was the first vegetarian establishment ever reviewed by Chicago magazine.
Now...
Angélica Casas, a senior video journalist at BBC News, was recognized with Medill’s Cecilia Vaisman Award for Latine and Hispanic multimedia journalists Thursday.
The award, which is co-sponsored...
When Bea Sullivan-Knoff played a drag queen in an adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” last year, she connected with a part of herself she never knew existed.
“That was the first time I...
