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The show, which debuts this weekend at Freyja Salon in Ravenswood, combines live performance, film and demonstrations.
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The Argyle Street store's owners sold the sign to an Indiana collector as they prepare to move their business across the street. It is the second iconic neon sign moved out of the city in the past month.
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The 5-foot-8 Kawamura is wow-ing fans — and blowing up on social media — with behind-the-back passes while holding his own against superstars like LeBron James.
Other new Downtown and West Loop restaurants include dessert shop The Bougie Foodie and Gingie from Brian Lockwood, a consulting chef on “The Bear.”
The Instagram account run by two drinking buddies is holding a March Madness-style “Jukebox Jamboree,” pitting the city’s dive bars in music machine matchups.
The restaurant will hand out the beloved Puerto Rican sandwich — believed to have originated in Chicago — at its Logan Square and Dunning locations next week.
Four neighborhood groups will activate storefronts and help small businesses on commercial corridors in Austin, Belmont Cragin and West Garfield Park impacted by 2023 and 2024 floods.
PHILADEPHIA — Louis Crevier hustled to the locker room so quickly Thursday after a skate sliced his face, Connor Bedard didn't even realize it had happened. Nor did the referees spot Crevier's blood splattered on the ice behind the Blackhawks' net, which was finally scraped off by the Xfinity Mobile
Most draftniks believe that the Bears are well-positioned for what they need next month. Drafting 25th overall in Round 1, they can wait and pick the best remaining defensive end, defensive tackle or offensive tackle. Waiting that long is new around these parts — the Bears haven’t drafted this late
A 17-year-old boy was killed in a shooting early Friday in Montclare on the Northwest Side. Around 12:50 a.m. police responded to a person lying on the ground and found the teen was shot multiple times to his body in the 6700 block of West Grand Avenue, Chicago police said. He was taken to the Loyol
The Sun-Times asked readers last week "What kind of museum is missing from Chicago?" Patrick Leary's excellent answer was, "A Museum of Journalism." I wanted to write in and highlight the wealth of journalism-related material at the Newberry Library, much of which I've been privileged to work with i
DEAR ABBY: My wife is having an affair with an old flame from when she was in high school. He was just released from prison after serving time for murder. I have forgiven her, but I told her to stop the contact. She said she'd rather divorce me than do that; I would have to live with what's going on
Mohammad Salehi opens a jar of saffron and smells the dark crimson threads nestled inside. The spice has a rich, musky aroma that’s a reminder of home. Heray Spice, Salehi’s fair trade business, imports saffron grown by farmers in Herat in western Afghanistan where he grew up. Saffron, known as the
In April 2021, the Lee family of Samsung Electronics fame announced a bequest of its enormous private collection of art to the South Korean government. Just four months after the announcement, Yeonsoo Chee, the associate curator of Korean art at the Art Institute of Chicago, approached the Korean go
Bruno and Veronique Bich in Paris in 2007. Brothers allege the family chauffeur sold the 500-year-old painting to a Manhattan art dealer for $3 million and are demanding its return. [ more › ]
This coverage is made possible through a partnership between WBEZ and Grist, a nonprofit environmental media organization. Illinois home insurance premiums are going up, and climate change-powered severe weather is in part to blame. Average U.S. home insurance rates climbed 12% last year and are pro
A beer bottle, a brazen drunk act and Billy Corgan forever changed Melissa Auf der Maur’s life. “I would never have believed it then if you’d told me that, one day, Billy would have more influence on my life than anyone other than my parents,” she writes in her book, “Even the Good Girls Will Cry: A
They showed up looking like delivery guys, lugging shopping bags from a Whole Foods Market. When they knocked on the door of David Berger’s home in Ukrainian Village, he let them in. But the bags weren’t filled with groceries. They were stuffed with stacks of cash, prosecutors say, money Berger was
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