Taste Chicago

by Cari Zwolinski February 5, 2019

Last week, as Chicago experienced its coldest temperatures in decades, Candice Payne, a mana...

There are neighborhood bars in every corner of the Chicago, from basement dives to old-school taverns. The one thing they all have in common? They’re somewhere anyone can go to kick back with a drink and feel like they belong.

We’ve rounded up our favorite neighborhood watering holes where you can drink like a local:

This community hangout on the North side is known for its Sunday Bloody Mary Bar. There’s also live jazz on...

You never know what you’re going to find when you’re cleaning out a closet.

In this case, I found this photo, which was on an 11x16 card which was part of a “Vintage photo series” promo giveaway at Wrigley Field in 1997. Yesterday’s post on the pre-1937 scoreboard was about another similar giveawa...

Maybe they got the idea from Atlanta, which had just staged a grand premiere for Gone With the Wind.  Today the State Street Council hosted Chicago’s first nationwide movie premiere.  And it featured Cecil B. DeMille.

It was decades before anybody would—or could—call the Midwest “flyover country.”  But to many people on the East or West coasts, Chicago was only the place where you had to change trains.  So civic leaders were al...

Used to be that every rookie with a microphone would ask Wayne Williams why he didn’t make more house music records. After all, his whole life he’s been associated with great records. He was one of the original Chicago House DJs, founder of the Chosen Few DJs and you need to wear protective eye gear to keep from squinting from all the gold records on the wall of his office f...