Mavis Staples

Mickey Alice Kwapis wants you to love taxidermy as much as she does.

This 17-yead old has seen more bird species in Cook County than anyone, ever.

Pat Lohenry has been making beautiful and impossibly detailed dollhouses all her life.

Your favorite Chicago PBS anchor has a no-longer-secret passion. Mexican-inspired papel picado. And he’s damn good at it.

As a kid, she was bullied for her hair loss. Now she helps girls live bald and proud.

Helen Lambin got her first tattoo at age 75.

Al Westerman grows 124 varieties of heirloom apples.

How to make a classical musician: One hour before school. Two hours after school. Every day. Free. In a low income, mostly immigrant, school.

You have never seen hats and gloves like these.

In the early days of COVID-19, 3D printer owners cranked out thousands of free face shields.

Why did Sister Stephanie Baliga give up her Olympic dreams to become a nun?

Dave Kloke built this working locomotive from scratch. Now he's making the train car that carried Lincoln's body.

Globetrotting hikers learn to love Chicago nature during the pandemic.

Black and white photos capture River North in a very different era.

When the Indiana Dunes became a National Park, photographer QT Luong had to act fast.