Cara Sabin and Sarah Gonsiorowski: Best Friends and Lunge Ladies
How these BFFs snack, exercise, and unwind (often together).
Lynette Smith
The 10 Hottest Restaurants in Chicago Right Now
The city’s most buzzed-about restaurants this month.
When Martin Luther King Jr. Lived in Chicago
Fifty-five years ago, Martin Luther King Jr. rented an apartment on the West Side. He would leave not quite a year later, having learned a frustrating lesson: He could expose the city’s gaping racial wounds, but he could not heal them.
Big Players Place Big Bets on Sports Gambling in Illinois
Casinos, a racetrack, and major sports teams are all trying to cash in on Illinois’s $5 billion a year sports betting habit.
Black-Owned Wine Companies Blaze a New Trail
These Black-owned companies with Chicago ties are forging a path in the industry.
David Lyng’s Roasted Carrots With Labneh, Honey, and Dukka
Elevate your carrot game this Thanksgiving with a recipe from Fiya’s executive chef.
Ten Great Things to Do This Week
Barbara Kruger: THINKING OF YOU. I MEAN ME. I MEAN YOU., Chicago International Film Festival, Songs for Nobodies, Unbound Sound, and more
We’re Obsessed with the Fusion Crispy Shrimp Mini Cakes at DaNang Kitchen
We can’t get enough of the two-bite shrimp cakes at this BYOB Vietnamese spot in Uptown.
The Big Number: Top Aldermanic Salary
$130K Ald. Raymond Lopez is nicknamed Showpez for his grandstanding style. Most Chicagoans probably appreciated the show Lopez made of turning down the City Council’s latest pay increase, which raises the top aldermanic salary to $130,000. “How can anyone who continued making 6 figures during the most tumultuous time in recent history justify a 5.5% … Read more
Hermene Hartman’s Gut Keeps Getting Smarter
The N’Digo publisher, 74, on working for Jesse Jackson, marrying interracially, and criticizing Obama.