Jennifer Day

Chicago’s Instagram-friendly museum reopened recently, so I headed to the West Loop to see how the museum had adapted for the COVID-19 era.

Community Solutions, a nonprofit that has helped Rockford make significant progress toward ending homelessness, has won a $100 million MacArthur Foundation grant.

After postponing due to the coronavirus pandemic, Printers Row Lit Fest will be Sept. 11-12 with Ta-Nehisi Coates as its headlining author.

Dinner and a show: Tribune critics offer the perfect takeout recommendations to pair with your next movie or TV night.

While you’re stocking up for holiday gifts for book lovers, think twice before clicking that Amazon button; shopping locally -- especially during a pandemic -- is a gift too.

Face masks are taking up a lot of facial real estate these days, so here are our picks to indulge your loved ones. After all, they’re essential.

When I was a kid, our neighbor in Michigan had a flagpole in her front yard. The clanging of that flagpole has been sounding in my ears this year. Has the flag come to belong to one political side over the other?

Jeff Tweedy wants you to write a song. Just one.He wants you to become so focused on writing that one song that you lose yourself in it, you

Isabel Wilkerson, Nate Marshall win Chicago Public Library awards

Jeff Tweedy wants you to write a song. Just one.

We spoke with Tweedy about his new book, “How to Write One Song,” and his new solo album, “Love Is the King.” They go together well. And according to him, it doesn’t matter if the song you write is any good.

A two-hour drive into Michigan for cider and doughnuts proved to be an ideal daytrip — for kids and adults.

The bookstore, a fixture of the Logan Square neighborhood, has remained shuttered during the pandemic and has seen a 50% drop in revenue.

Colin Quinn has a new book, “Overstated: A Coast-to-Coast Roast of the 50 States,” and some pointed observations on what the left and right don’t find funny.

We rounded up some of the city’s best soft-serve ice cream to help you stretch summer just a little longer.

Here’s what Chicagoans told us about their attitude toward entertainment during the COVID-19 pandemic; spoiler alert: They miss it.

We spoke with him just after he flew to New York from Pakistan with his family. His novel was published in 2017, and he’s been away from America for a while. Some things have changed, he said, and some haven’t.

Read on for more best bets, presented in order of publication date. We can’t possibly get to them all, but given the strange way time bends these days, we hope you will.

The 2017 novel was short-listed for the Booker Prize, and is about a young couple, Saeed and Nadia, who find they can travel to different parts of the globe using magical doorways.

On a trip to Michigan, the parent of a 3-year-old negotiates how to visit the grandparents safely.