At Virtue Restaurant in Chicago’s Hyde Park, chef Erick Williams celebrates Black life. For him, that means not just highlighting Black foodways and culinary traditions, but also Black contributions ...

How do you capture the warm, comforting feeling of a grandmother giving you ice-cold lemonade and cookies on a hot summer day? A celebrated chef makes delivering that quality of hospitality his ...

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CHICAGO (WLS) -- This week, Tanja sat down with South Side chef Erick Williams. Williams has won nearly every accolade for the soul food he dishes up at Virtue. It's not only his cooking that feeds ...

Erick Williams from Virtue Restaurant in Hyde Park won Best Chef in the Great Lakes region at the James Beard Awards on Monday night, the only Chicago restaurant to win one of the prestigious ...

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Chocolates are a traditional Valentine's Day gift, but people can make sweets themselves instead of buying them this year. Becky Pendola is the pastry chef at Virtue restaurant in ...