Tina Akouris

A potential member once thought that the Ninety-Nines were more like a “kaffeeklatsch,” a gathering of folks who gossip about the neighborhood over coffee. But the group of professional…

There was a time when a football game at Soldier Field that drew as many as 120,000 people featured players too young to vote. It was a time when the biggest football game for high schools here was…

One onlooker was hungover and didn’t have anything better to do. Another cruised over on roller skates to see what all the fuss was about. What they saw in the Loop that Memorial Day in 1981 …

My mom was not a nice person. I never knew who I was going to get. But I learned a few invaluable things from her. My mother was rude, angry, irritable, judgmental and ill-tempered; she was neither…

As another school year gets into full swing and summer comes to an end, we also celebrate International Underground Railroad Month. September shines light on the National Park Service’s Natio…