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In the mood for soul food? A Chicago eatery offering elevated soul food is one of 52 restaurants participating in this year’s Chicago Black Restaurant Week.
The event, in its ninth year, is a celebration of Black-owned food, beverage and dessert businesses, said founder Lauran A. Smith.
Like Chicago Restaurant Week, CBRW specials will actually run for more than a week, this year from Feb. 11 to 25.
“It’s just another effort to get people out in the neighborhood,” Smith said.
Those neighborhoods across the city include the South and West sides, as well as the suburbs.
Here are six Chicago Black Restaurant Week specials the Tribune’s dining team can’t wait to try.
And here are the top stories you need to know to start your day.
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Split verdict on tax charges for ex-state legislator Annazette Collins
Former state legislator Annazette Collins was convicted Monday on four of six tax-related charges, a mixed verdict delivered after more than eight hours of deliberations.
A federal jury convicted her of filing two false tax returns and failing to file one personal tax return and a return for her lobbying firm. She was acquitted of failing to file a corporate return in 2016 and also of filing a false tax return for herself in 2018.
Family of woman hit, allegedly killed by cop car in line for $3.25 million in proposed settlement
Aldermen will take a first vote Wednesday on the deal and three more settlements totaling another $1 million proposed by the city’s Law Department. The settlements recommended by the Committee on Finance could then be voted on by the full City Council as early as Thursday.
A display case holds an assortment of rifles that cannot be sold to customers because of state firearms legislation that bans the sale and distribution of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines.
Gun rights groups ask SCOTUS to review Illinois’ assault weapons ban
In a long-expected move, two national gun rights organizations are asking the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn the state and Naperville bans on the sale of assault weapons and large capacity magazines.
Kelvin Kiptum celebrates his Chicago Marathon victory in world-record time with executive race director Carey Pinkowski on Oct. 8, 2023. (Eileen T. Meslar/Chicago Tribune)
Family dreams shattered after Chicago Marathon winner’s death in Kenya
Kelvin Kiptum was one of the most exciting prospects to emerge in road running in years, having broken the world record in only his third appearance in an elite marathon. His record, set at last year’s Chicago Marathon, was ratified by international track federation World Athletics just last week.
Column: A Super Bowl in Chicago? It’s OK to dream big about showing off a new stadium.
While watching Vegas get its close-up last week in the run-up to the Super Bowl and during the game itself, thoughts of a Chicago Super Bowl danced in Paul Sullivan’s head.
Instead of Taylor Swift, we’d have our own Buddy Guy hanging out in the super suite with his South Side pals. The “Super Fans” from “Saturday Night Live” would reunite on “The NFL Today” to talk about “Da Bears,” the chefs from “The Bear” would narrate a pregame video on our great local restaurant scene, and of course Bill Murray would show up everywhere to do Bill Murray-type things.
Features on Papa Bear, Coach Ditka, Dick Butkus, Gale Sayers and Walter Payton, and a hip-hop version of “Super Bowl Shuffle” during the halftime show. The sky’s the limit.
White Sox GM Chris Getz takes questions at a news conference at Guaranteed Rate Field on Aug. 31, 2023.
White Sox, coming off a 101-loss season, enter spring training with ‘a lot to prove to themselves’
Recently released preseason PECOTA projections placed the Sox last in the American League Central with a 0.3% chance of capturing the division title and a 0.0% chance of winning the World Series.
“Our goal is to go beyond what the projections are,” General manager Chris Get said Monday during a video conference, “and I think most teams could say something like that or believe in something like that. You know what it takes — it takes a team to come together.”
Injury return in sight for Blackhawks’ Connor Bedard?
Connor Bedard is a week away from being evaluated to make contact for the first time since undergoing surgery Jan. 8 to repair a fractured jaw suffered three days earlier in a collision with the New Jersey Devils’ Brendan Smith.
Review: ‘Antigone’ at Court Theatre has a cast ready to take this play in new directions
“Antigone” is a play made for Hyde Park and the campus of a university dedicated to hearing all sides; no wonder it’s selling fast, writes theater critic Chris Jones.
The music goes on for singer Paul Marinaro
Paul Marinaro came to Chicago by car, driving in from Buffalo, New York, where he was born and raised, the youngest of 10 children. He carried with him some clothes, a few record albums, some books and something special.
“I came here carrying my father’s dreams,” he said. “My dad had wanted to be a singer. That was his passion. He even cut some records, homemade, but he never got the chance to sing professionally. Raising 10 kids and having a wife didn’t exactly work for someone who wants a singing career.”
Paul has had a singing career, a fine and active one that arrives Sunday at Evanston’s Studio 5, with Mariano and 14 musician pals celebrating his latest album, “Not Quite Yet.”
Artist Wu Tsang’s ‘perfectly perverse’ adaptation of ‘Moby-Dick’ sets sail at the MCA
Unlike some American high schoolers, Wu Tsang avoided reading “Moby-Dick” in English class. She didn’t discover Herman Melville’s novel until adulthood, and even that encounter was mediated: she attended a talk about “Mariners, Renegades and Castaways,” a 1953 “Moby-Dick” critique by Trinidadian thinker C. L. R. James that reframes Ahab’s boat and crew as a floating factory.
Inspired by James’ study, Tsang turned to the Pequod as a theoretical sandbox — an arena to explore capitalism, queerness, eroticism, race and fascism, all packaged in a familiar narrative. The product of those imaginings stops by the Museum of Contemporary Art from Feb. 14 to 16: “MOBY DICK; or, The Whale,” a 2022 silent film adaptation directed by Tsang and written by Sophia Al Maria.
