Meet Chef Roberto Pérez: Revitalizing Chicago’s Puerto Rican food scene
By Justin Agrelo Medill Reports Puerto Rican chef Roberto Pérez doesn’t eat pork. He confesses this to me from behind the steering wheel of his black Volvo on a cold Monday a few weeks ago. We’re driving through Chicago’s Austin neighborhood to Rico Fresh, one of Pérez’s favorite grocery stores. His confession is an obvious […]
A moment bigger than a campaign: 33rd Ward Aldermanic Candidate Rossana Rodríguez-Sánchez heads into a runoff
By Justin Agrelo Medill Reports At a watch party on election night in the back room of Chief O’Niell’s pub in Avondale, a group of nearly 100 people wait. Live music from a local youth band fills the room as people socialize, drinks in their hands and enthusiasm in the air. Like many other watch […]
25th Ward Aldermanic Candidate Hilario Dominguez is making waves – Q and A
By Justin Agrelo Medill Reports Hilario Dominguez is making waves and ruffling some feathers on his run to become the 25th Ward’s next alderman. The ward covers all of Pilsen and Chinatown, and parts of Mckinley Park, Tri-Taylor, the West Loop, and the South Loop. And it hasn’t seen a new alderman in more than two […]
Alderman Danny Solis takes central focus at 25th Ward candidates forum – even though he wasn’t there
By Justin Agrelo Medill Reports More than 200 people piled into the basement of St. Pius V Church in Pilsen, braving snow and frigid Chicago temperatures. They came to hear five young candidates vying to be the next 25th Ward Alderman speak about housing issues. Candidates, community members, and media all gathered at a public […]
