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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Tink is the prevailing mistress of Chicago R&B, a 28-year-old soprano whose Aaliyah-like head voice you could reasonably call angelic. Over the course of four albums and many online-only mixtapes, she ...

The tropical behemoth Three Dots and a Dash is not exactly what we’d call restrained, but the Bamboo Room, a hideaway tucked within the River North bar, sure is. When it reopened last November after a ...

In other major cities, catching your favorite team or band or dance troupe requires months of planning, alerts on your smartphone for the moment when the presale begins, brownnosing industry friends.

Chicago in the winter is a reminder that love, for all its heart-pounding, soul-stirring, head-spinning magic, also requires some suffering. Anyone can relish the lakefront path in the summer. The ...

For many of us, there comes a moment when we wonder just how we landed where we are. We may wonder, too, how our paths ended up so different from those of the people closest to us. For journalist Dawn ...

When Otis McDonald bought his house in Morgan Park in 1971, the purchase represented a generational milestone of sorts: One of 12 children born to Louisiana sharecroppers, McDonald left the farm at 17 ...

After an idyllic Midwestern upbringing, Joe Mansueto founded an enormously successful financial information company on the simple premise that people might like an easy-to-use guide to mutual funds.