This brandy bottles 500 years of Bolivian history: A growing number of trendy Chicago bars are pouring Singani, the spirit director Steven Soderbergh brought to the U.S.
By Paulina Marinkovic Camacho Medill Reports Down an alleyway on Palmer Street, past a nondescript door and centuries-old brick façade, a 500-year-old type of brandy, until recently little known beyond its homeland of Bolivia, is starring in one of the city’s most high-concept cocktail lineups. At The Meadowlark, a Logan Square speakeasy renowned for its […]
Robbins: A small Chicago suburb with a big part in Black history
By Autumn Coleman Medill Reports In 2019, Dawn Colquitt-Anderson walked into her small hometown’s history museum with her 8- and 9-year-old nieces in tow. She expected to find family photos and fun facts, but she discovered memorabilia of Tuskegee Airmen and Black cowboys. The information sent Colquitt-Anderson on an ongoing journey to spread the almost-forgotten […]
Not their first rodeo: New generation of Black cowboys in Chicagoland lasso cattle for Midwest crowds
Horse hooves knocked chunks of dirt over the steel bars of the arena. Stallions charged 20 mph after a loose steer. Within seconds, a cowboy slid off his steed, grabbed the loose animal by its horns, flipped it over his shoulder and tackled it to the ground. The crowd clapped and hollered. On a Saturday […]