The celebrity chef ate, drank, and tweeted his way through the city for his new show, "The Layover," but here are our dining editors' picks for where to go if you have one night to spend in Chicago... Read more
List Price: $699,000 The Property: Of Ben Hecht’s thousand and one afternoons in Chicago, it’s likely that some were spent at this Queen Anne-style Hyde Park house where he lived in the early 1920s... Read more
The murder of a 62-year-old immigrant in West Rogers Park is the latest victim attributed to a "game" of random street violence—one that's also cropped up in St. Louis and London. Read more
They haven’t yet signed the lease for their likely space, and another restaurant is still operating there, so they won’t yet allow publication of the address—but it’s not in the West Loop, as has previously been reported... Read more
The frequency of the old cliche "Chicago-style politics" spiked after Barack Obama's rise to the White House—and it's getting hauled off the shelf again by the Romney campaign. Read more
After two fundraisers in Austin today and two more next week in the Bay Area, Obama will come home for his birthday—to host another fundraiser. He's doubled George W. Bush's total in a similar period, but Mitt Romney is creeping up on his heels. Read more
With umbrellas in our hands and rainboots on our feet, Chicago braved the storms at Union Park this weekend for the seventh annual Pitchfork Music Festival. Photographers Ray Whitehouse and James Trevenen shot the wildest style, crowds, and performances, while writer Elly Fishman caught the best of the fest’s performers—both on stage and off... Read more
SOMETHING’S AFOOT: Bricks? Natural stone? Reclaimed cobbles? Here’s a step-by-step approach to choosing the patio material that’s right for you Read more
