In addition to our guides, here are a few events we find interesting this week....
We’re traveling to Fullerton Avenue in Chicago’s Logan Square neighborhood to visit a bowling alley with a rich history as the center of Chicago's pun...
Ask any group of Chicagoans about their favorite taqueria and you'll get different answer from each. For this guide, you're going to eat at a place th...
When the weather finally turns for the better, a long walk through the city might just be what you need to shake off the winter blues. This guide take...
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...
Every neighborhood has that one classic Chicago corner bar that everyone loves. For this guide, we're visiting three neighborhoods and their corner di...
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've planned a whole night, all within a one-block radius right off the Damen Blue Line Station. It starts with New Haven-style pizza at a brewery wi...
No matter the weather, it's worth venturing Chicago's Lakeview neighborhood and making several stops on Southport Avenue, a thoroughfare bustling with...
This itinerary is part of our "Known/Unknown" series, where we pair a Chicago landmark with overlooked places nearby. For fans of literature and archi...
This is part of our “Known / Unknown” series. For each guide in this series, we pair a classic, essential landmark with an overlooked place nearby. To...
This guide is part of our "Known/Unknown" series where we pair an essential Chicago landmark with some more obscure spots nearby. It starts with a lei...
For this week's guide we're adding another edition to our Known/Unknown series where we pair a classic, essential landmark with an overlooked place ne...
We've got another guide to add to our Known/Unknown series where we pair an essential Chicago landmark with overlooked places nearby. Today we're on a...
No matter how long you've lived in Chicago, there will always be those frigid winter days where you just can't shake the cold. I'm talking about the t...
If you're part of the work-from-home crowd, I'm guessing that at some point, you may have gone days without stepping foot outside. It's a disconcertin...
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...
We're taking advantage of living next to a giant freshwater lake and have you going on a fishing 101 expedition. You'll get outfitted with fishing gea...
We've got a relaxing picnic planned inside a garden, that in the words of Alfred Caldwell, was "planned as a sanctuary of the native landscape, a plac...
How far are you willing to travel for a hot dog? We’re here to figure that out. You’ll grab your bike and take it on the Metra all the way to Libertyv...
This guide has you going deep inside a forest preserve where you'll camp along the shores of a small lake, do a bit of hiking, and hang by a campfire....
About an hour outside of Chicago, there are thousands of scientists from all over the world working to answer fundamental questions about space, life,...
This week's guide takes you to Garfield Park in search of a bit of inspiration. The first stop is to one of the oldest and largest conservatories in t...
This guide has you travelling 30 miles from the city and spending the day jumping off 90 foot climbing walls, ziplining across a lake, and traversing...
This guide has us venturing out into the deep dark abyss, a terrifying hellscape for 20-somethings living in the city. That's right, we're headed to t...
We're hitting the road for a weekend trip to Wisconsin. It starts with a 2.5-hour drive to Madison, Wisconsin, our home base for the weekend. After ge...
Pack the car because you're going on a day trip to Southwest Michigan. It's close to a 2-hour drive, and if you're going during the right time of year...
Put on a comfy pair of walking shoes and bring your appetite because you're venturing out on a day trip to Lockport, Illinois. You'll start the day wi...
We're headed about 45 minutes from Chicago to visit that other nationally recognized zoo in the Greater Chicago area. This is a particularly good guid...
When the cold weather strikes, this guide has you cooking up some eats to keep warm -- or should I say hot -- hot pot that is. To get started, you'l...
We're taking the Red Line to go on a food expedition that starts in Chinatown and ends on the far North side in Little Saigon. We'll make a few stops...
This night is about good eats and good drinks. You'll start things off with a dining extravaganza brought to you by a Michelin starred chef on a quiet...
There are no shortage of outdoor markets when summer rolls around, and for today's guide we'll be visiting two staples on the the South Side. You'll f...
When most folks think of Japanese cuisine, they think of either sushi or hibachi. This guide features neither. Instead, we start this guide with Osaka...
10 pieces of Korean chicken, 30 plays, and 68 draft lines. That's the setup for this evening excursion in Andersonville. It starts with a late din...
While the rest of the city sleeps, this guide has you going on a midnight escapade through Logan Square and Bucktown. You'll start at a late-night...
We're taking you on nighttime adventure in Chinatown where you'll grab drinks in a backroom cocktail bar and then you'll have a family style Cantonese...
There's a large residential section of Bucktown with an eclectic mix of historic greystones, two-flats, and multi-million dollar modern homes. It's th...
In Rogers Park, there's a narrow cobblestone street full of shops and bars that feels more like old world Europe than it does Chicago. This guide has...
