Thirteen-year-old Eli Coustan from Evanston succeeded where adults with more than a year to prepare failed: He created ILVaccine.org, a database that pulls in open COVID-19 shot appointments from all ...

All we really require from our city’s pro athletes is that they help their teams win. But it doesn’t hurt when they also love being here — and get what makes us tick. In his first season with the Cubs ...

Time is rarely kind. What was once the height of fashion is, sooner or later, not. That was the case with this handsome 1880s Lincoln Park greystone, which had gotten a very of-the-minute redo in the ...

All along the highway toward southwest Wisconsin, there’s blowing snow and a hard sky, and I worry aloud to my husband that the whole place will be shut down, the weekend trip a bust. By the time we ...

Dance and shop? Why not? The Silver Room, owned by Eric Williams (pictured), is known as a purveyor of Chicago style, and its chill soundtrack comes courtesy of the Sound Selector Series. Live ...

Laricia Chandler Baker, better known as Chef Fab, has been slinging veganized versions of meaty classics at her restaurant chain, Can’t Believe It’s Not Meat, since 2019. (It has three locations: Near ...

Eiffel Waffle Friends-turned-business partners Omar Falaneh, Barra Abousalem, and Yahya Ghouleh opened the first location of their over-the-top sweets shop in Downers Grove last year. With outposts in ...

Jonathan Franzen’s Crossroads is the first in a planned trilogy about a family in suburban Chicago. Due October 5. Biology and technology crash in Noor; Africanfuturist Nnedi Okorafor sorts through ...

During the second year of the pandemic, the Wiener’s Circle transformed its decrepit parking lot into a swanky back patio, featuring a bar and plenty of seating. But best of all, the hot dog ...

In our local mythology, winter is an annual trial, bleak and interminable, that we survive on delivered food and fervid dreams of day drinking in the sun. But what if it’s also just about the warmest ...

At their carryout and delivery spot, which opened in October, chefs Erick Williams and Damarr Brown of Virtue do one thing: mac and cheese. But they do it exceptionally well. Not only have they ...

The funny thing is I’m actually more of a salty-savory person,” says Patrick Mason. These are ironic words when spoken inside Candycopia, a sanctum for sweets that he and his wife, Alycia, opened in ...