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124 Best Dishes
By Dennis Ray Wheaton
We scoured the city for the top offerings on Chicago's world-class restaurant scene. From appetizer through dessert, from über haute pineapple rum soup to down-home juicy fried chicken, here's your road map to the 124 yummiest dishes around. Read more
How Your High School Stacks Up
By Dennis Rodkin
Chicago does a by-the-numbers evaluation of 233 public high schools in the six-county metro area, looking at school spending, as well as teacher experience, test scores, and other academic categories—including an exclusive appraisal of the relationship between money and test scores. Read more
How to Do Everything Better
Who couldn't use a little good advice? We went directly to the experts and solicited their best tips on how to improve our lives in myriad ways, such as impressing wine-snob friends, winning arguments, fending off attacker, eating for long life, decluttering a desk, and working smarter than the average monkey. Read more
Best of Chicago 2007
In our exacting annual issue dedicated to ferreting out all good things worth knowing about, we present a guide to Chicago's tastiest food; outstanding places to shop for clothing and the home; top-notch service providers; great neighborhood attractions; and, of course, sure-fire ways to have fun. Read more
The Food Lover's Guide to Chicago
Edited by Jennifer Tanaka
Our best attempt to catalog the city’s finest food and where to get it—from great butchers to a tiny Mexican cremería in Pilsen. As lists go, this one is not nearly comprehensive enough, but you won’t find a better place to start. Read more
Classic City
By Brittney Blair, Amber Holst, Geoffrey Johnson, David King, Nadine Kenney, Kevin McKeough, Jan Parr, Dennis Rodkin, Cassie Walker, Deborah Wilk, and David Zivan
25 Surviving Treasures from Postwar Chicago—and Beyond Read more
Before They Were Famous
By Michael Austin and Jennifer Wehunt
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 Read more
Breakthrough Medicine
By Dennis Rodkin
24 techniques and treatments that are reshaping the war on disease—and the doctors and scientists spearheading those innovations Read more
Best of Chicago – 2006
For this year’s Best of Chicago feature, we ate, shopped, visited, interviewed, imbibed, and otherwise sampled our way through the city and suburbs looking for treasures and treats. Somebody had to do it! PLUS: Best of the Neighborhoods Read more
South Loop Rising
By Dennis Rodkin
After languishing for decades as a bleak landscape of warehouses and rail yards, Chicago's South Loop is afire. Condo sales are booming, big-box stores are blossoming, and chic restaurants are laying out the welcome mat. Add the lakefront, the Museum Campus, and a rich history to the mix, and is it any wonder the South Loop is not just the city's but the country's hottest neighborhood? Read more