Packages: Chicago's Iconic Eats

As you wait to place your order at this venerated fish shack by the Calumet River in the southernmost part of Chicago, you can picture what was: the barges plying the water, the steel plants churning, the European immigrant workers lined up to grab a quick lunch of fried or smoked chubs, pike, or walleye. … Read more

The signature dish at Stephanie Izard’s eternally popular first restaurant, which opened in 2010, sounds like one of most the adventurous bites in the city: cheeks, snout, and tongue from a Slagel Family Farms pig seasoned with cilantro, lime, and coriander, rolled up like a porchetta, and braised, sliced, and cooked in a wood oven. … Read more