The outdoor classics company goes back to the old-school rotating-rep model with Hamlet and The Importance of Being Earnest.

IDHS grants that are supported by the Illinois Lottery’s specialty ticket have helped Fifth Street Renaissance to continue providing critical resources to some of the state’s most vulnerable and ...

I ordered the vanilla and chocolate twist soft-serve dipped in matcha, though the extra topping overwhelmed the ice cream’s subtle sweetness. Tates Old Fashioned Ice Cream Shop in La Grange has the ...

Photographer W.D. Floyd is building an archive of Chicago’s summer hopes and dreams.

At FAST Corp's rural Sparta headquarters, the molds behind the world's biggest muskie, roadside giants, and oversize mascots lie scattered in a field, waiting to be reborn.

A night of camping at Palos Preserves goes a long way towards re-establishing that connection to our pre-Anthropocene selves. Established as an official Urban Night Sky Place by DarkSky International, ...

Travel just 55 miles northwest of the city for a floating boardwalk, sandhill cranes, and one of the strangest ecosystems in the midwest.

The one-room schoolhouse houses photographs, tools, and stories of immigrants and Black miners who followed coal to rural Illinois.

Since the museum opened in 2019, the lovable sock monkey has basically become the village’s unofficial mascot.

This UNESCO World Heritage site in Collinsville, Illinois, lets visitors climb a 100-foot earthen mound built nearly a thousand years ago.

It’s the 100th anniversary of Route 66, and in Chicago, you’re at the start of the Mother Road. A two-hour-and-change drive takes you to a colorful collection of statues illustrating their place in ...

From the abandoned Zorn Brewery Complex to the South Shore Line ride down, this is the most underrated day trip on Lake Michigan.