For this year’s Best of Chicago feature, we ate, shopped, visited, interviewed, imbibed, and otherwise sampled our way through the city and suburbs looking for treasures and treats. Somebody had to do it! PLUS: Best of the Neighborhoods
Largely forgotten now, Myrtle Reed dazzled as a best-selling romance novelist and Chicago socialite 100 years ago. But in her personal life, a happy ending proved sadly elusive
Glencoe native Lili Taylor has made a career playing complicated women. Chicago spoke to Taylor, who lives in Manhattan, about her theatre roots, why she is drawn to damaged characters, and why she’ll likely return to Chicago this summer.
Hip-hop poets Idris Goodwin and Kevin Coval are taking the mic at Yale and at Steppenwolf—and, along the way, attempting to change your definition of rap culture.
Need a break from your nightlife routine? Here are some of the freshest, funkiest, funnest slices of the local scene, along with a few old favorites
The not-so-secret secret about the Chicago nightlife scene is that the velvet rope is more or less a formality. However, there are some rules—as we discovered on a recent Saturday night. PLUS: Trendspotting
Since opening Reserve has become a magnet for celebrities, scenesters, and marketers looking for a hot spot. With a rope outside and another inside leading to the upstairs club, Reserve works hard to live up toits name. Here is a guided tour.
What happens when a hot local band goes out for a night on the town with a reporter: they drink a few beers, shoot some pool—and do nothing even remotely stupid.
Megan Mullally joins the talk show fray; a few “kinks” in a new Playboy book; hot for teacher; and more for September
Chicago-reared MCs Rhymefest and Lupe Fiasco met two years ago while on the same flight home from Los Angeles, where each worked on Kanye West’s album Late Registration. Chicago brought the two together again to talk about Kanye, the city’s moment in the hip-hop spotlight, and the responsibility of an MC.
