John Barrett and Daniel Cousino

ChicagoBurgerBible.com

A handful of tips from our disciples led us to this potential hidden gem burger in Little Italy, the Davanti Burger at Davanti Enoteca.

Hilda H. Polanco

Managing Director, Fiscal Management Associates, LLC

While Mayor-Elect Emanuel tackles the Chicago's budget deficit of more than $500 million, there is much he can do to help struggling nonprofits shore up the safety net they provide.

Paul Klein

Art Mentor / Educator

There's an immediacy to works on paper. It shows the artist's hand more than other mediums, rendering the artist's soul more visible and their intent more clear.

Audarshia Townsend

312DiningDiva.com

Three of Chicago's nominees for the 2011 James Beard Foundation Awards are pretty much celebrities in their own right.

Joe Moore

Chicago Alderman

Make no mistake about it: pollution from the ancient Fisk and Crawford coal-burning plants affects all of us in Chicago. Dirty air doesn't respect ward boundaries.

Robert Koehler

Syndicated writer

The power of domination depends on our essential isolation from one another -- our cynical separateness, our underdeveloped or perhaps completely decommissioned capacity for empathy.

Gregory Michie

Chicago teacher, author

We all get busy with our own lives. And once the Chicago winter rolls in and we're cooped up inside, you can go weeks, even months, without seeing the people who live next door.

Lonna Saunders

Attorney/Writer/Broadcaster

"Kindness and truth shall meet; justice and peace shall kiss" from Psalm 85 epitomizes for me the life of Robert Sargent Shriver Jr.