After its debut in Brooklyn, the event relocates to the Second City September 13-20 for a full week of all things shaken and ...

Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old from Schaumburg, wakes up feeling sick. Her parents keep her home from school, and she takes some Tylenol. She was the first victim. Our office was notified, but there ...

We're joined by dining critic Nick Kindelsperger to discuss all the old and new spots he's enjoying in the Loop as the ...

1 Cicero, not Chicago, was dubbed the “wettest spot in the United States.” Agents discovered 20 separate large-scale stills in a single series of raids, reports John J. Binder in Al Capone’s Beer Wars ...

Featuring child-approved museums, meals, decor, jokes, parks, and more — plus other sage advice for grownups ...

Above, clockwise from top left: The Red Light Levitating Bluetooth Speaker, Your Personal Einstein Genius Homework Robot, the Hypnotic Jellyfish Aquarium, the Indoor Flameless Marshmallow Roaster, the ...

Over the years, this magazine has produced many rankings of the best places to live in the Chicago area. We’d consult with experts and cite stats, sure, but those lists were largely subjective. This ...

In May 1980, Chicago was celebrating the return of a certain breed of city dweller. These coveted residents were young, urban, and professional, and in a long story for Chicago magazine, Dan ...

In 1971, Eileen Smith was a 21-year-old dropout from Elmhurst College, broke and breaking out of a bad relationship. She was also accidentally pregnant. She wanted an abortion, but her options were ...

In the last ten years or so, Ken Griffin has become one of the most prominent names in Chicago business, philanthropy, and—to a less visible extent—politics. As the founder and head of the ...

Most of the theatres in this photo essay were still in business when I started reviewing movies for the Sun-Times. In those days a lot of movies still opened in “the nabes,” of ten as double features, ...

The old stark skyline is gone. It’s Chicago, April 2068. Gardens grow on the sides of skyscrapers that house the city’s 20 million residents, many of them refugees from coastal regions consumed by the ...