Amy: Today we’re talking about our new feature, The Best Things to Eat Right Now, which covers our top bites of 2025. Plus, ...

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Around 2 a.m. one night in the summer of 2022, five friends walked out of a club in the Loop and got into an argument with a man who then pulled a gun. He fired a Glock pistol at them, one that had ...

Let’s get this out of the way: Chicago has a lot of steakhouses right now. Which leads to the obvious question: what does the ...

Subscribe on Apple Podcasts or Spotify. Read the transcript below. Amy Cavanaugh: Welcome to Dish From Chicago Magazine. I’m Amy Cavanaugh, Chicago magazine’s dining editor. John Kessler: I’m John ...

Sometimes, a man’s name outlives his fame. He may have monuments dedicated to him, cities or towns named after him, schools and parks bearing his name, but his achievements and his writings have faded ...

Now that Bill Daley has quit the governor’s race, my guess is that Rahm won’t be voting for Pat Quinn, not even while holding his nose. I bet Rahm pulls the lever for his buddy, Republican Bruce ...

A decade ago, TV writer John Rodgers was trying to figure out how low George W. Bush's approval ratings would go. A friend predicted 27 percent, because that was the percentage of the vote the hapless ...

When you cross a battleground and read a plaque commemorating the fallen and the brave, you start to believe you can feel the history in your bones. But what about the unmarked battleground, the one ...

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