In 2007, Georgetown University students had two choices of food: fresh, slow, and expensive, or unhealthy, fast, and cheap. Jonathan Neman, Nicolas Jammet, and Nathaniel Ru decided they could do better, not only for themselves but for others. After putting together a business plan, they found a former burger stand and began building their vision […]
“I would never want somebody to go through what I did,” says Riley Hintzche, who waited until he was in college to come out as gay. His mother, upon being told, said, “What took you so long?” Hintzche is using his experiences growing up in a small Illinois farm town to create welcoming and safe […]
After chef Art Smith’s great aunt and grandmother died of Alzheimer’s and his mother began showing signs of the mind-robbing disease, he thought, “Art, here you have the capacity, you have the ability, to find the best” doctors and treatment. But the fame and wealth and connections he’d made as chef to the stars and […]
“If you got it, a truck brought it,” is a line from Al Pacino in The Irishman. It’s true. Nearly everything we consume, especially food, gets to us by truck. But there’s a huge shortage of truck drivers — roughly 80,000, according to Matt Hart of the Illinois Trucking Association — and in the audio […]
Short-term pain for long-term gain is one way to describe what’s about to happen on the Illinois River. In the audio clip below, Tom Heinold, Chief of the Operations Division for the Rock Island District of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, tells WGN’s Steve Alexander three locks and dams will be closed from June […]