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Chicago magazine delivers an authoritative guide to life in one of America's greatest cities. From insight into the best dining and shopping to interviews with fascinating figures shaping the future of Chicago, every issue is your source for living city smart.

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Family Reunion

Got (Italian) Beef? • It’s absolutely, positively one of the greatest sandwiches ever conceived in human history [“Italian Beef’s Golden Age,” November]. The Slider Shack via Facebook

CITY OF BIG QUESTIONS

Talking Points • This month’s conversation starters

Game of Zones • Chicago desperately needs more housing. But when it comes to building apartments, the city is its own worst enemy.

The Chi-centric Ski Guide • Chicago isn’t anyone’s idea of a skiers’ paradise. But with more direct flights than any other big city to top U.S. slope destinations, maybe it should be. Here, six new draws.

Quantum Leap • Preeti Chalsani leads the effort to create a hub here for the next generation of technology.

AVENUE Q • The Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park is not the only place where Chicago is making a name for itself with this technology. Here are four local startups.

Physician’s Finery • An 1889 Victorian beauty built for a doctor is up for sale in Elgin.

MY NEIGHBORHOOD BRIDGEPORT

Luke Stoioff • Hospitality king, jujitsu fan, low-key cigar lover

Tress to Impress • Fresh from Broadway, director Whitney White returns home with a comedy set in an immigrant-owned hair salon.

AGENDA • Top 10 reasons to fill up your calendar this month

Culture Crossing • At Mirra, Zubair Mohajir and Rishi Kumar find the culinary intersection of Mexico and India.

Sweet Buzz • It’s coffee, it’s dessert, it’s an affogato — a combination of ice cream and espresso. Here are four to try.

Ask the Dining Editor

Top Prospect • At Oliver’s, chef Alex Carnovale shows great potential, but spotty dishes and service hold the place back.

Home Baked

The Hot List • 10 places everyone’s talking about (in order of heat)

Best Dressed

The 25 Best Things to Eat RIGHT NOW • FROM PISTACHIO GELATO TO SPICY SICHUAN NOODLES, THE MOST MEMORABLE BITES OF THE MOMENT OFFER A DELICIOUS TOUR OF THE CITY.

CHRISHONA HODGES’S LIFE SENTENCE • At a crossroads when Chicago profiled him nine years ago, Jerryon Stevens is now in jail, awaiting trial on a murder charge. At home, his mother reckons with her son’s path — and tries to hold her fractured family together.

TOP DOCS IN COOK COUNTY • THESE 1,395 PHYSICIANS, NOMINATED BY THEIR PEERS, ARE THE RIGHT PRESCRIPTION FOR WHAT AILS YOU.

Custom Kicks • The artist behind Angel Reese’s tricked-out sneakers can do yours too.

The Write Stuff • This decidedly analog stationery shop is stocked with beautiful, tactile communication tools.

The Goody Vault

Best in Cask • These smartly curated independent booze shops pair potables with staff expertise.

John H. White • The Pulitzer Prize–winning photojournalist, 79, on covering Ali and having a gun pointed at him