This guide takes us to Edgewater for a quick afternoon trip. It starts at a place that's one part pie shop, one part bar, and one part elevated tavern...
This is a classic neighborhood walkabout in West Town. It starts with coffee and shopping at a pandemic-inspired retail/coffee shop. You'll then grab...
In this guide, you’ll be taking in the history of Edgewater which encompasses several smaller neighborhoods like Edgewater Beach, Edgewater Glen, Magn...
Up in Rogers Park, it’s easy to find things to do. Perhaps not the first place many think to visit on a weekend day off work, Chicago’s northernmost n...
For this guide you'll be grubbing at the back of a Korean grocery store, and afterwards, you'll take some to-go dumplings and head down the street to...
Get your walking shoes ready, because we're going on an old fashioned neighborhood walkabout. The plan for the day is a one mile jaunt through Lincoln...
We’re going music and book shopping in Andersonville today. The great thing about record stores and bookstores is that you don’t have to buy anything...
We're hanging out in the Near North neighborhood to shop, eat pancakes and Croatian sausages, and visit places that blur the line between dining and r...
We're hopping on the Brown line for this guide to see what we'll find if we take it all the way to the last stop (Kimball). Once you get off the trai...
Pilsen is a mecca for vintage shoppers and the plan for this guide is to bounce around to four different shops, each with a different era of fashion a...
We've got a lazy Sunday in West Loop on the books. The day starts a local non-profit bookstore to dig through their collection of new and used books....
Chicago's history has been shaped by different waves of immigrants from all over the world, and we're celebrating part of that history with a visit to...
This guide has you going on a classic neighborhood walkabout around Humboldt Park. It starts with a Coney Island hot dog at a corner hot dog shack. Yo...
This guide takes you on a mini Swedish adventure in Andersonville that works great as a chill Sunday afternoon outing. This is a historically Swedish...
This guide has you strolling through fields of wild flowers and exploring an island nature preserve on the South Side. But before that, you'll grab br...
This guide takes us to Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood, where we'll spend the afternoon doing a reverse progressive lunch. We start with dessert and...
This guide has us visiting Chinatown but we won't be getting there by car, train, bus, or bike. In fact, for our mode of transportation, we won't need...
Twenty-five years ago, on the southern end of the Roscoe Village neighborhood, an eight-block stretch of Belmont Avenue was home to 'Antiques Row.' At...
We're hanging out in Bridgeport and going on a classic neighborhood walkabout. It starts off with coffee at a beloved neighborhood cafe, and then you'...
We're headed to West Town and to a part of the neighborhood that lots of us have probably passed by without giving it a second thought. But if you loo...
