For National Mac and Cheese Day, we’re highlighting a local company whose name is synonymous with cheese—Kraft. Founded in 1903 by James L. Kraft, it started as a cheese-delivery business in Chicago, and within a few years, Kraft was producing cheese as well. By 1976, Kraft Inc. had about $5 billion in annual sales with More
Every Sunday, we’re featuring a story submitted to our community-based initiative, In This Together, which collects digital records that capture personal experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic. “An abrupt change in the daily routines of two working parents and a trio of 10, 8, and 6 year-olds was, at first, exciting. Late morning school in pajamas? More
July 11 marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the massacre of more than 8,000 Bosniak men and boys in Srebrenica during the wars in the former Yugoslavia in 1995. Bosniaks are South Slavic Muslims native to Bosnia, an independent country in southeastern Europe that was once part of Yugoslavia. Srebrenica is a town located near Bosnia’s More
Parisian-born designer Jeanne Lanvin had the vision, ambition, and inspiration to build not just a fashion house, but an empire. At age thirteen she delivered hats for a milliner, then became a milliner’s apprentice, and at twenty-two opened her own hat shop. When Lanvin was thirty, she gave birth to her daughter Marguerite, who served More
It’s been forty years since the first Taste of Chicago was held on Michigan Avenue. While its format has changed this year in light of COVID-19, the Taste will still be showcasing the city’s culinary offerings. The Taste of Chicago began in 1980 when a group of restaurateurs led by Arnie Morton approached mayor Jane More