Designed by famed architect William Le Baron Jenney and completed in 1885, it rose 10 stories (and eventually 12, after an ...

The new bar, from Heisler Hospitality, Terry Alexander, and Abe Vucekovich offers approachable drinks and a fantastic patio.

A new MCA exhibition reconsiders generations of local queer art — and the activism that inspired it.

The first murdered mayor was Carter Harrison. On October 28, 1893, two days before the closing of the World’s Columbian ...

But suppose Madigan hadn’t been allowed to spend most of his life in the state House. Suppose he’d been limited to 12 years ...

Amy and John discuss their favorite cocktail bars in the city, what makes a great mixed drink, and what makes Chicago's scene so approachable.

Homegrown styles have evolved thanks to a new crop of chefs putting their twist on pan, deep dish, and tavern. Here are our 25 favorite pizza joints, ranked.

With mortgage rates at near-historic lows, it’s a good time to buy if you know where to look. That’s where we come in.

F irst I saw the tooth marks. Walking at the Montrose Beach Dunes one morning in November 2020, I noticed some tree stumps clustered along the edge of Lake Michigan. A foot or so above the muddy ...

This Saturday, a group of Downstate Illinoisians plans to gather outside the Hancock County Courthouse in Carthage to declare their independence — from Chicago. They’re members of New Illinois ...

When more than a million members of the Kuomintang party retreated to Taiwan at the end of China’s civil war in the late 1940s, they brought with them a taste for hearty soups from the north ...

Cavanaugh: So you and I have both been eating out non stop the past two weeks. Kessler: We have, yes. Cavanaugh: One of my favorites was Kanin, which is the new Filipino-Hawaiian bodega in ...