Summer is Back!
This year, the pleasures of the season are that much sweeter. Make a lip-smacking potato salad, party on a boat, and stuff your face with soft serve. You’ve earned it!
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Best Places to Live: Green Spaces Edition
Homebuyers are rethinking their priorities. Proximity to a downtown office? Not so important. Proximity to fresh air and nature? Top of the list. With that in mind, we identified 20 neighborhoods and suburbs that offer exceptional access to green spaces and recreation.
Candace Parker Comes Home
After 13 storied seasons in Los Angeles, the two-time WNBA MVP and former Naperville Central star joins the Chicago Sky. She brings with her some hard-won wisdom.
Objects of Fascination
If you visit the Chicago History Museum, you will see only a fraction of its unparalleled collection. Among the hundreds of thousands of treasures carefully stashed away are these eight unique artifacts, each a window into a chapter of the city’s past.
The 10 Best Day-Trip Hikes
Forget the tent or hotel room. These destinations offer abundant natural beauty, from canyons and waterfalls to prairies and dunes, within three hours of the city.
Chicago’s Arts Scene Has a Race Problem
Can a seven-year-old antiracism nonprofit solve it? The city’s biggest cultural institutions are betting heavily that it can.
What COVID Survivors Know
As these testimonies reveal, those who have had the most severe cases face profound and often lasting effects that experts are still struggling to understand.
How to Get Rid of Anything
You’ve used your year in isolation to finally tackle that soul-sucking project of organizing your closet. And your basement. And the garage. Now it’s time to donate, recycle, and sell.
The Day Tammy Duckworth’s Black Hawk Went Down
In an exclusive excerpt from her new book, the U.S. senator from Illinois recounts the dramatic downing of her helicopter in Iraq — and the early stages of recovery from her devastating injuries.
Noodle Nirvana
Italian pappardelle, Japanese ramen, Filipino pancit, Spanish fideos, old-school spaghetti and meatballs! Chicagoans are living in a global noodle paradise. Here’s your guide to the best, plus chef recipes, gluten-free options, and more.