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...
For a lot of Chicagoans, it's not about getting used to the cold-weather season but finding ways to cope with it until summer rolls around. This guide...
Chicago's improv and comedy scene is unrivaled. You can find a show nearly every night of the week, but more often than not, that means hanging out so...
Oktoberfest celebrations come and go, but this guide lets you enjoy German festive cheer all year round. This guide takes you through Chicago's North...
Sometimes, planning date night is as easy as dinner and a show. The city is chock-full of establishments that would pair perfectly in this category, b...
If you haven't guessed by the title, this guide is all about plants. It starts at a plant shop in Wicker Park, where you'll not just buy a plant but l...
There's a misconception out there that you're either a dog person or a cat person, and you've got to date someone with a matching preference. For this...
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...
Wine and book lovers, especially fans of the two combined, this one's for you. You'll venture to Printer’s Row, a neighborhood near the South Loop tha...
This guide has you visiting West Ridge, a quiet residential North Side neighborhood that's home to a vibrant South Asian, Jewish, and Eastern European...
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...
This guide is part of our Good Bites series, and we're venturing out to pick up fresh ingredients to make a classic BLT -- our summer sandwich of choi...
We've got a house party teed up in Humboldt Park. You're going to catch live music and comedy acts in the basement of a Humboldt Park home. Afterward,...
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...
The night starts on an empty street surrounded by warehouses where you'll have cocktails inside a bustling taproom while a forklift might be operating...
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...
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...