Mary Kellerman, a 12-year-old from Schaumburg, wakes up feeling sick. Her parents keep her home from school, and she takes some Tylenol. She was the first victim. Our office was notified, but there ...

Now, it’s about to be home to Arla (15 E. Oak St., Gold Coast), a Japanese and Mediterranean restaurant from one of the ...

1 Cicero, not Chicago, was dubbed the “wettest spot in the United States.” Agents discovered 20 separate large-scale stills in a single series of raids, reports John J. Binder in Al Capone’s Beer Wars ...

A historic home in Evanston designed by Joseph Lyman Silsbee — Frank Lloyd Wright’s first employer and mentor — is on the market for the first time in nearly 30 years. Having last sold in 1996 for ...

Featuring child-approved museums, meals, decor, jokes, parks, and more — plus other sage advice for grownups ...

When Eric Williams told me he was going to bring back his legendary block party this summer, his excitement bubbling over as he detailed the plans, I have to be honest, I worried about my friend. For ...

Daniel Kraus didn’t mean to write his first sci-fi horror novel. In fact, the Evanston-based novelist never really knows what genre any given book he writes is going to pursue — and that’s what makes ...

With picks ranging from tasting menus to food trucks, our critic ranks his favorite places to eat.

“At the end of the day it’s a restaurant and they’re just out to eat,” says Julia Suhr (pictured at the end of the counter in a white tee), who has manned the front stand since Warlord’s early days.

This Saturday, a group of Downstate Illinoisians plans to gather outside the Hancock County Courthouse in Carthage to declare their independence — from Chicago. They’re members of New Illinois, a ...

The old stark skyline is gone. It’s Chicago, April 2068. Gardens grow on the sides of skyscrapers that house the city’s 20 million residents, many of them refugees from coastal regions consumed by the ...

Jesse Ball is trying to show me how to lucid-dream. The 38-year-old writer and I are in a café in Lincoln Park to discuss his novels and poetry. Almost immediately we find ourselves talking instead ...