Chicago’s restaurants shone in the face of adversity in 2002. It was a challenging year, particularly for those in the fine-dining segment; customer counts were down and spending was down, especially ...

So completely and innocently does Paula Radcliffe fit the caricature of an eccentric Brit that one is left to wonder whether she is a star athlete favored to win the Oct. 13 LaSalle Bank Chicago ...

From the sublime singer/pianist Patricia Barber, Bill Holman and Jimmy Heath fronting a pair of big bands, third-generation Cuban pianist Chuchito Valdes, Ray Anderson's mirthful Pocket Brass band to ...

WBEZ plotted annual school closings and schools “turned around” since the 2001-02 school year when CPS began shuttering schools as a reform strategy. This sortable chart and map shows where schools ...

Now in its tenth year, Thomas Blackman’s Art Chicago, one of the world’s largest international art fairs, is presenting the work of over 3,000 artists this weekend. In addition to modernist masters ...

Murderesses Velma Kelly (a chanteuse and tease who killed her husband and sister after finding them in bed together) and Roxie Hart (who killed her boyfriend when she discovered he wasn't going to ...

CHICAGO. With Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Queen Latifah. Directed by Rob Marshall. Running time: 108 mins. Opening Friday. Rated PG-13: Sexual content, dialogue and violence.

If it was good enough for Jane Austen, it’s good enough for me. In an 1813 letter to her sister Cassandra about Pride and Prejudice, which had just been published, Austen said that “the work is rather ...