On May 4, the Chicago Headline Club handed out its annual Lisagor Awards, which honor the best in Chicago journalism. And Chicago Lawyer assistant editor Amanda Robert won an award for feature writing for her story from the November issue, "Food trucks steer around legal speedbumps." The story dealt with how area food trucks are dealing with city ordinances governing how they do business. Here's the story. Great job!

Since One Sixtyblue closed, I've been looking for a go-to place before Bulls and Hawks games. When I tried and failed to get into Carmichael's Chicago Steak House the other day, I remembered my old friend N9NE.

How do you define professionalism? And how do you react when you're met with someone not acting professionally? Christina Martini and David Susler, the Inside Out columnists, tackle professional conduct with Chicago Lawyer editor Olivia Clarke in this month's video.

How has the tragic death of a black teenager in Sanford, Fla., become symbolized by a hoodie — a sweatshirt with an attached hood, a wardrobe staple for every high school and college student in America?

The controversy concerning brain injuries in professional sports took on an entirely new dimension when news broke in March that the NFL concluded a three-year investigation into a system of bounty payments to New Orleans Saints defensive players. At its core, the program paid out financial rewards for injuries. As NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said, "The payments here are particularly troubling because they involved not just payments for performance, but also for injuring opposing players."

Many working professionals, even those without children, struggle with fitting a workout regimen into their busy schedules. Attorneys at law firms have their billable hours requirements to contend with, but others do not fare much better.

Most of the major local hospitals in the Chicago area share medical records to improve health care in the community by forming the largest data exchange in the country, the Metropolitan Chicago Healthcare Council (MCHC), announced in April 2011. At first glance, it may appear to be a good thing.