Features 101 Things to Do From glass blowing (2,400 degrees) to ice fishing (32 degrees or below), we’ve gone to extremes to bring you adventures and pleasures to help keep the winter blahs away. Also-a checklist of the 20 essential Chicago activities: Are you a true citizen? Left of the Dial, by Kevin McKeough A … Read more
Features 20 Stylish People Chicagoans with a presence reveal what it takes to stand out in a crowd-beauty and money are not the power points in this world of elegance and attitude. Warming Trends, by Stacey Jones High boots and hot fun furs for long, tall worldly women Short Takes, by Stacey Jones The return … Read more
Features The Best of Chicago In our annual search for superlatives, we track down top new stores and a hot new shopping strip; neighborhood restaurants and sandwiches for summer; garden antiques and nature preserves; people in entertainment and the media; and scores of other treasures for young and old in the city and suburbs. Her … Read more
With PBS looking to expand its dwindling audience, WTTW picked Bob Sirott—a former DJ and wisecracking morning-show host—to take over a revamped Chicago Tonight.
Features Rooms at the Topby Robert SharoffWith the backing of some of the city’s top developers, the architect Lucien Lagrange is reinventing the classic luxury of an earlier age with elegant high-end apartments. Only the critics aren’t buying into his rarefied vision of how the moneyed elite should live. Women Behaving Badlyby Eric SpitznagelAfter making … Read more
Yes, there is his paparazzi-hounded Friend. But here he talks to us about growing up in Lake Forest, buying a home in the city, and why he insisted that The Break-Up be shot in Chicago
This June, after a turnaround so remarkable that it has become a business school case study, the Joffrey Ballet celebrates its 50th anniversary—and its 11th year in Chicago. Behind the revival are a few good men, a powerful women’s board, and an extraordinary company of dancers.
A legal dispute over the rights to some of Kanye West’s earliest recordings sounds a sour note on the local hip-hop scene—and offers a glimpse of a young unknown bound for megastardom.
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Six Art Institute curators weigh in on the unsung heroes of their respective departments
