Lincoln Park’s fifth annual Mayfest arrives just in time for a weekend of music, food, and shopping. Float between two stages ...

With Michigan now being taken seriously as a producer of vino, it’s time for a tour up the coast. These three wineries are ...

Bouaphanh is going head to head with Andrew Choi, his former partner at Jinsei Motto who opened Omakase Box nearby with its ...

I’m Amy Cavanaugh, Chicago magazine’s dining editor. John Kessler: I’m John Kessler, Chicago magazine’s dining critic. Amy: ...

East Rogers Park is in close proximity to Lake Michigan, with some residential streets leading right to the shoreline. One of ...

The hottest new cocktail bar in town is hiding underneath a new restaurant in River North. Kitty’s Cosmopolitan Club, a ...

As ‘The Late Show with Stephen Colbert’ comes to an end, one of its longtime writers, a Chicago-area native, looks back on ...

Speaking of which, when do we get his name off that otherwise-handsome Adrian Smith building? There are no guarantees, but it could happen, depending on the answers to some of the biggest questions ...

In 1855, the city embarked on a far-fetched scheme to hoist itself out of the mud and gunk. On the 155th anniversary of the project’s launch, we take a lively illustrated look back.

What: The sophomore project from the Daisies team (in the old Daisies space). Why: With $10 cocktails, a raw bar, and pizza, it checks all the 2026 cool boxes.

For three horribly sweltering days in the summer of 1995, Chicago endured the deadliest stretch of heat ever recorded in the United States. The death toll ultimately numbered an estimated 739. Most ...

No one who watched the game quite understands how Brandon Steburg got hurt. The defensive end for Papillion–La Vista High School, just south of Omaha, Nebraska, had made some big plays, the last of ...