By Noah Isackson, Nora O’Donnell, and Jennifer Wehunt
Don’t hate them because they’re beautiful. These 20 singles—a top table-tennis player, a nightlife impresario, and a gallery owner among them—are smart and talented, too. Read more
Before they hit it big in movies and music, books and business, sports and space, Chicago area high-school students such as Harrison Ford, Liz Phair, Hugh Hefner, and Lara Flynn Boyle were simply kids next door, some with gaudy talents already on display, others nowhere close to being voted most likely to succeed
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We think they're stars in their own right: meet Chicago's cast of singles 2007, envisioned as characters from iconic films. But there's more to these scene-stealers than pretty faces. From a top chef to an academic star to a police officer, find out who rocks out on air guitar to Rage Against the Machine, whose childhood nickname was GQ, and who has an artichoke in her pocket (nope, it's not a pickup line). Read more
An immigrant’s pluck, an inspired vision, and four generations of elbow grease: how the White Way sign company has brightened Chicago’s cityscape for 83 years Read more
Oktoberfest began as a wedding bash outside Munich and spread, by the turn of the century, to Chicago, where it remains an excuse to stuff our gobs with German fare. These odes to Deutschland put the heart in hearty dining. Read more
Dancing with the Stars is so May sweeps. Just put down that remote and catch the interactive alfresco version: dancing under the stars. Here are a few—mostly free—places to perfect your samba (or foxtrot or two-step) this summer. Read more
