If the first trial had a certain excitement and air of unpredictability, Monday’s edition of the retrial seemed just worn and wan—much like the defendant. Still, there was a special poignancy because while Blago II droned on at the federal courthouse on Jackson and Dearborn, some blocks east and north at Millennium Park, Rahm Emanuel—“that little [expletive]” in Blago’s taped words—was being inaugurated as mayor…
Last week The Field Museum opened Design for a Living World, the inaugural show of the museum’s new Gary C. Comer Family Gallery…
The first new mayor in 22 years takes over for real today. Here’s a sampling of what to look out for, from school days to beat cops to searchable budgets. Just don’t ask him about tampons.
Empire, Michigan—population 400—may be tiny, but, when its residents join forces each year to honor the humble asparagus, the result is impressive. This weekend, the picturesque burg on the Leelanau peninsula celebrates the fiber-rich stalks with a party that MSN ranked in its top 10 list of the World’s Weirdest Festivals, sandwiched between South Korea’s Boryeong Mud Festival and the Monkey Buffet Festival in Lopburi, Thailand. Here are three ways to explore Empire’s annual vegetable-based bacchanal…
You read it here first (in English, at least): A new Chicago brewery, 5 Rabbit Cerveceria, will preview its beer lineup during the second-annual Chicago Craft Beer Week, which kicks off Thursday and runs through May 27 (check The 312 on Friday for photos from the opening-night party at Garfield Park Conservatory)…
Like Mayor Daley, Emanuel’s doing this for the kids. In other words, there were no big surprises in the new mayor’s speech, but he did address the issue that many suspect will the focus and the big tension of his early tenure: Chicago Public Schools, teachers’ unions, and Jean-Claude Brizard.
Dion Antic—Remember him? Iggy’s? Harry’s Velvet Room? The more recent but shorter-lived Shady Lady?—is back with a new nightspot, Porkchop, in the West Loop…
The new Brizo/Delta showroom in the Mart, called Dream2O, may be the only showroom in the country that has running water on all its displays…
Of all the hurdles Indiana governor and likely presidential candidate Mitch Daniels faces on the road to the White House, one important one his the permission of his wife, Cheri. She’s not much for politics, but she does love Chicago’s other pastime: her beloved grandfather was Cubs Hall of Famer Billy Herman.
The original Mayor Daley’s inaugural speech was something less than a barnburner, but encapsulated the man and his civics-class-era tenure as mayor.
