Since 1987, Morgante Wilson Architects has been powerfully
led by husband-and-wife duo of Elissa Morgante and Frederick
Wilson. For the past 30 years, the first 20-years in Chicago, the
last 10 in Evanston to be more centrally located for their clients,
their practice has evolved into a leading residential architectural
firm that specializes in custom-designed homes, rental and
condo buildings and residential interiors. According to the pair,
they work collaboratively on all projects; Fred designs from the
outside in while Elissa designs from the inside out, providing a
comprehensive design package as they consider all the elements of the home

Let’s face it—we live in a digital world. And in the hospitality industry, the best way to target, engage, and communicate with new and existing customers is to use social media metrics to a competitive advantage. But where do you begin?

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In the coming months before the February municipal elections, the Weekly will be profiling not only the candidates for public office, but also the grassroots movements that shape the political landscape in Chicago communities. Over the next few months, we will be asking mayoral and aldermanic candidates about their positions on each of these movements.

In Chicago, and around the country, police departments are increasingly using databases to log and track purported gang members. The practice ha

At twenty-five, Pilsen native Hilario Dominguez is the youngest candidate in the crowded race for alderman in the 25th Ward, which covers Pilsen, Chinatown, and parts of Tri-Taylor, McKinley Park, the West Loop, and the South Loop. The incumbent, Danny Solis, has held the position since 1996 — three years after Dominguez was born.

Dominguez became an activist at a young age. While at Whitney Young High School, he helped organize a walkout to protest Chicago Public Schools budget cuts. His organ

On Sunday, Feb. 18. the Theatre School wrapped up a short, nine-day run of its striking production of “Native Son.”

After relocating to Chicago’s South Side in the 1930s during The Great Migration, 20-year-old Bigger Thomas finds work in the house of rich, white Mr. Dalton to support his mother and siblings. The plot shifts when one night, in an ironic attempt to avoid trouble with whites in power, Thomas commits a heinous crime against them, provoking a gut-wrenching chain of events that cause

During the height of the Civil Rights Movement in the mid-50s, while Martin Luther King Jr. offered a message of justice by way of peace, Malcolm X led an alternative movement focused on combating racism by enforcing the values of black empowerment, liberation and achieving social justice “by any means necessary,” which included violence.

While Malcolm X’s rhetoric shifted, and he favored a more peaceful approach to achieving civil rights by the time of his assassination in 1965, the intense an

Let’s get this out of the way: I’m not a native Chicagoan. I wasn’t even raised in the USA.

I’ve also lived a lot of places, because in my previous career as a reporter and network executive, I had to travel to anywhere and everywhere for soccer games. Some of those places are really