Southwest Michigan has long been Chicago’s favorite coast (other than our own, of course). But the draws — food, shops, and fun — are stronger than ever. Here’s how to get the most of out it.
The city’s most buzzed-about restaurants this month.
A new Illinois law allows women to obtain contraception from pharmacists — without seeing a doctor first.
Fannie (The Music and Life of Fannie Lou Hamer), Dead Ringers for Dead Singers, 34th Annual Streeterville Dog Halloween Party, Arts in the Dark, Sylvan Esso, and more.
Fifty-five years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment on the West Side. He would leave not quite a year later, having learned a frustrating lesson: He could expose the city’s gaping racial wounds, but he could not heal them.
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.
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.
Can a seven-year-old antiracism nonprofit solve it? The city’s biggest cultural institutions are betting heavily that it can.
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.
