Lifelong friends and Evanston residents Theresa O’Connor and Skye Robinson adopted two rescue cats at the end of August 2020. They co-founded their small business Sesame Cafe on Etsy two months later, ...

Apart from the giant yellow bird, the red furry monster and the blue Muppet with an insatiable appetite for cookies, “Sesame Street” appears as real as the New York City streets that inspired it.

When "Sesame Street" was created in 1969, it was a test - could television teach children? The program was developed with lower-income families in mind, and the set was meant to represent a block in ...