Best Breakfasts in Chicago and the Suburbs: Great Restaurants to Try Now

SUNNY-SIDE UP: Whether you're in the market for a healthy meal or a carbo-bomb of yesteryear, morning in Chicago is better than ever—and we've got 75 ways to prove it.

By Penny Pollack and Jeff Ruby, with Carly Boers, Jennifer Moore, Jan Parr, Jennifer Tanaka, Shane Tritsch, and Jennifer Wehunt

Steve Baskis: Profile of a Survivor at 19,000 Feet

DARK VICTORY: Three years ago, Baskis, then a 22-year-old U.S. Army infantryman, was permanently blinded by a bomb while serving in Iraq. Since then, his life has been a series of challenges, many...

By Brian Mockenhaupt

Confessions of Art Fraud King Michael Zabrin

MASTER FLEECE: At the center of an art fraud ring that circled the globe and operated for decades, the Northbrook man was both an eager peddler of fake prints by famous painters and a wire-wearing...

By By Hillel Levin

A Night Out: Deuce's & The Diamond Club in Wrigleyville

DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH?: A new nightlife compound aims to clean up Wrigleyville’s act (good luck with that)

By Amalie Drury

Suburban Housing Rentals: What’s Available

FINDING A NEW LEASE ON LIFE: Want to rent while enjoying the suburban life? What the market looks like in three Chicago suburbs.

By Dennis Rodkin

What’s Up with Down Payments?

Savings, gifts more frequently used as housing down payments as proceeds from prior home sales slide

By Dennis Rodkin

Longtime Kenilworth Owners Take a Real Estate Loss

AN UNEXPECTED LOSS: Holding onto their house for 12 years didn’t prevent a neurosurgeon from taking a near-half-million hit

By Dennis Rodkin

Theurer-Wrigley House in Lincoln Park Up for Sale

A STRANGE BREW: Suggested once as a residence for Chicago's mayors, the home is on the market for $9.5 million

By Dennis Rodkin

With Help from Rats, NU Neuroscientist Closes In on Depression Treatment

AN UNLIKELY ALLY: At Northwestern University’s Feinberg School of Medicine, Eva Redei is making inroads in finding better ways to identify and treat depression. Her main test subjects? Rats!

By Karen Springen

Rosemont-based Riddell Seeks to Build a Safer Football Helmet

DAMAGE CONTROL: As evidence of the toll taken by head injuries in football continues to mount, the high-tech quest to create a better helmet advances, little by little, in the lab

By Jonathan Eig

Henri Bendel Comes to Water Tower Place

SHOPPER: The Chicago site of the high-end retailer is just one of the stores launched in a nationwide expansion.

By Lena Singer

Expert Tips and Great Items for Your Holiday Parties

HOLIDAY, CELEBRATE!: Insider tips to set off the party season with sparkling personality

Six Timeless Tools for Your Kitchen

KITCHEN AID: Home cooking can be world-class with these new items.

By Lena Singer and Brad Bennett

Getting to Know Your Thanksgiving Turkey

FARM TO FREEZER: One man watches the process of preparing the bird for sale—at his own existential risk.

By Chris Silva

Tony Mantuano on Bar Toma

A conversation with the Spiaggia chef, who is preparing for the 250-seat restaurant

By Jeff Ruby

Trend: Burger Madness

Recently opened or lauching soon: The Burger Point, Burger Joint, Burger Boss, The Burger Philosophy, Butcher and the Burger, and more

By Jeff Ruby

Ryan Poli's Tavernita to Open in December

This must be the place Columbus was looking for

By Jeff Ruby

The Hot List: 10 places everyone's talking about and dining at in November—in order of heat

Chicago's most-buzzed-about restaurants this month

By Penny Pollack and Jeff Ruby

Guide to St. Louis: Our Two-Day Itinerary

SOUTH BY SOUTHWEST: Boutique shopping, gawkworthy landmarks, and authentic blues are just five hours away in St. Louis

By Catey Sullivan

Walgreens’s CEO Talks Business

WHAT I WAS THINKING: Greg Wasson on his company’s hits (fresh food), misses (four or five kinds of hammers) and transforming into a retail health destination

Meet the Doughnut-Craziest Family in Chicago

THE HOLE THING: One obsession, a million opinions.

By Jeff Ruby

Work by Five 'Happiness Project' Artists

Five contributors whose work you should not miss this November

By Heather Youkhana

Rogue Curator Tricia Van Eck's New House Gallery and Happiness Project

INSIDE OUT: A Museum of Contemporary Art vet turns her home into a DIY sound, performance, and installation art gallery, and oversees the citywide Happiness Project.

By Monica Westin

Five Best Things to Do in November

POCKET GUIDE: A cultural shortlist for November, in order of buzz

By Jennifer Wehunt

'Boss' Stars Kelsey Grammer as Chicago's Mayor

A new cable (Starz) drama about political megalomania unfolds in—where else?—our mayor’s office

By Rachel Bertsche

Markéta Irglová Goes Solo with New Album, 'Anar'

ON HER OWN: After singing with The Swell Season and Iron and Wine, the ingénue and co-star of the movie "Once" gets married and records a solo album in Chicago

By Kevin McKeough

Inside the Mind of Lyric Opera Honcho Anthony Freud

GREAT BRIT: His bucket list, foods he can't live without, fantasy opera team, and more

By Nora O’Donnell