Fall Culture Guide

Fall is typically Chicago culture's golden season, but this one gleams platinum. We're welcoming a Broadway-bound musical, an art blockbuster, first-class concerts, and the final installment of a...

By Rachel Bertsche, Cassie Walker Burke, Elly Fishman, Kevin McKeough, Graham Meyer, Kevin Nance, Matthew Reddin, Matt Schur, Catey Sullivan, and Emmet Sullivan

The Chicago Tylenol Murders: An Oral History

TERROR IN A PILL: In 1982, seven Chicago-area residents were killed after taking cyanide-laced Tylenol capsules. Three decades later, in exclusives interview, the principal players in that drama...

By David Zivan

Silicon Prairie Redux: Will Chicago's Tech Boom Last?

After years of hype and hope, is the city finally building a tech sector to be reckoned with?

By David Lepeska

Jesse Jackson Jr.'s Dark Days

Once one of the most promising politicians in the nation, Jesse Jackson Jr. has seen his career go horribly wrong—marked most recently by his mysterious disappearance and the revelation that...

By Steve Rhodes

Chicago Ideas Week Returns

Rahm, Corey Booker, and more share innovations of all kinds. Here are three can’t-miss panels

By Matthew Reddin

Tavi Gevinson, the New Queen of Media?

The teenage blogger, style icon, singer, and magazine editor eyes a new target: Hollywood.

By Meribah Knight

October Deal Estate: Home Sales, News, and Trends

By Dennis Rodkin

Reviews: Trenchermen and City Tavern

MAGIC MOMENTS: The Sheerin brothers conjure up an eclectic take on fine dining in a steampunk setting at Trenchermen, while Kendal Duque re-creates the pleasures of 18th-century dining at City Tavern.

By Peter Gianopulos

The Hot List: 10 places everyone’s talking about and dining at in October in order of heat

Chicago’s most-buzzed-about restaurants this month

By Penny Pollack

A Guide to Wicker Park: Where to Eat, Shop, and Play

INSIDER'S GUIDE: New spots like the Emporium Arcade Bar and the Purple Cow preserve the neighborhood’s trendy rep

By Jennifer Swann

Blago and the Bard

The former governor wants to teach Shakespeare in prison

By Matt Schur

Are Big Donors Really Ditching Obama?

DONOR DANCE: Reports that Chicago’s major bundlers have abandoned the president are greatly exaggerated

By Geoffrey Johnson

Scary Chicago Halloween Costumes

Drew Peterson, Chicago's murder rates, Groupon's stock, and more

By Corinne Mucha

Notre Dame: The Cubs of College Football

How the once formidable Fighting Irish became the Midwest’s lovable losers

By Chris Silva

Art Gallery Owner Shane Campbell’s Favorite Things

HOME WORKS: The owner of several self-titled galleries and former Art Institute instructor on the Leica M9-P camera, Maison Martin Margiela tennis shoes, and more

By Heiji Choy Black

The Magnificent Mile’s Newest Stores

Openings and reopenings abound this season on Michigan Avenue, the mother of all Chicago shopping streets

By Lynn Okura Bey

Chicago's Boozy New Dessert Trend

LET ME DRINK CAKE: From Jameson-infused ice cream to chocolate rum balls, these alcohol-laced sweets are the latest trend in dining.

By Amber Gibson

Trend: Where to Eat Rabbit in Chicago

The Purple Pig, Piccolo Sogno, Storefront Company, and the Peasantry all offer the versatile, healthy treat

The Soul-Warming Old Fashioned at Bavette's Bar & Boeuf

LIQUID: The new steakhouse from white-hot restaurateur Brendan Sodikoff (Doughnut Vault) sells a skeptic on the traditional drink

By Carly Boers

What’s New, What’s Coming, and What’s Cheap in Chicago Dining

Boarding House, Pecking Order, Carriage House, and Embeya

By Penny Pollack, Joanne Trestrail and Carly Boers

Pat Crowley Takes on the Vatican

SISTER ACT: The prioress of the Benedictine Sisters of Chicago stands up to a Vatican rebuke of U.S. nuns