In a city full of beautiful, ambitious, and bright singles it's nearly impossible to narrow down a category like this one. But long hours of grueling research have yielded a list of 20 of Chicago's most eligible men and women. Read more
Over the course of 20 raucous years, J. J. Jameson became a fixture on the city's lively poetry circuit—a loud, drunken declaimer out of central casting. So his many friends were more than a little shocked when Massachusetts police came to town this spring and arrested him. He had been active in his church, loyal to a fault, unusually talented—and his writing revealed such intimate details of his life that people on the scene thought they knew him. But they didn't know he had been doing time for murder, and had escaped. They didn't even know his real name. Read more
Chicago's North Shore hardly seems the crucible for edgy punk-pop. But with a new CD that's already gone gold, and jam-packed concert crowds, Fall Out Boy has burst out of the suburbs (even though most of the band members still live with their parents). Read more
Sapphires give a girl's best friend a mood of limitless mystery—think of the ocean, the sky, seductive azure eyes. Read more