Between laughter and serious heart-to-heart conversations, I was able to freely speak with Amanda Florian, a professional Italian-American blogger living in Chicago. Florian started her..
On May 2, 2017, a small but mighty group of Yale students completed production on a 70 episode web series called “Middlemarch: The Series.” The..
It was barely 10 a.m. as Gerry Quinton sat critiquing the complicated lace pattern of a deep grey corset. Hair perfectly curled, dress pressed, shoes..
How a group of social media users are creating memes to cope with mental illness, personal struggles I abruptly left class for the emergency room...
The Stage Locked doors, flaked wall painting, construction ladders at the entrance. This is how the Uptown Theatre, once the largest movie palace in the..
The evidence of DePaul University as the largest Catholic school in the country is not outwardly apparent – if you don’t count the 100-foot-high mural..
LaToya Ruby Frazier is exhausted. She flew in from Braddock, Pennsylvania, to Chicago at the crack of dawn to speak at the Art Institute of..
On April 21, 14 East hosted an event at Emerald City Coffee in Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood: a storytelling event, recorded by the 14 Speaks podcast..
In the far north neighborhood of Rogers Park, the Red Line Tap came alive one Tuesday night in late January. Around 9 p.m., musicians slowly..
As she walked up to the Starbucks on Jackson and Wabash, she could be mistaken for a real-life Barbie Doll. With her eyebrows on point..
