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Wicker Park upscale sports bar The Fifty/50 will throw an all-inclusive New Year's Eve party starting at 8pm on Tuesday, December 31 featuring a five-hour premium bar package, a food buffet, midnight champagne toast, party favors, and a DJ spinning all night long.

Like the MOSTRA Brazilian Film Series, the Chicago Serbian Film Fest , which takes place this Friday through Sunday at the Muvico Theatres in Rosemont, is less of a cinematic event than a lesson in foreign history.

Devoted to sculpture, functional art and design , the fair known as SOFA CHICAGO celebrates two decades of business with a special program that debuted in 2013.

During the holiday season, most Chicago visitors go shopping on the Magnificent Mile and strap on ice skates at Millennium Park.

The news is out that Saint Laurent opens tomorrow in the Gold Coast, and a fellow French neighbor won't be far behind.

To understand the Chicago political culture which trained and nurtured President Barack Obama , and to further understand how he could endlessly promise "If you like your insurance plan/doctor you can keep your insurance plan/doctor.

A 16-year-old girl who reported to police that she was sexually assaulted by two men who pulled her into an alley in the Heart of Chicago neighborhood has recanted that account, police said this afternoon.

Eugenie Terrace is a 44-story, 575-unit apartment tower at 1730 N Clark St in Lincoln Park 's Old Town Triangle neighborhood.

Chicago Shakespeare Theater and hip-hop sensations the Q Brothers are back at it again turning up the volume with a fresh take on a beloved classic.

Since at least September, a group of jovial bons vivants has been splashing the cash in bars and restaurants from Chicago to San Francisco, to tiny Port Orchard in Washington State - dropping tens of thousands in tips along the way.

Scrolling through this week's Hot 100 it seems like business as usual: Lorde holding onto the top spot for the ninth week, One Direction grabbing a block of spots in the teens after the release of their new album.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago presents the first solo museum exhibition of Chicago-based artist Lilli CarrA© from December 17, 2013 to April 15, 2014.

It might not be the first food you think about when you're listing Chicago's best eats, but the Windy City boasts four of the top 25 doughnuts in a ranking from one of the nation's leading culinary publications.

Northwestern Academy will Provide Free Rigorous Academics to Challenge CPS Students and College Counseling to Prepare them to Gain Admittance into a Top-Rated Public or Private University The City of Chicago and Northwestern University today announced a new program to help Chicago Public School students prepare for and gain admittance to selective ... (more)

Thinking about the spot in southern Grant Park from which Barack Obama delivered his 2008 presidential victory speech, Geoffrey Baer realized that, four decades earlier, the Democratic National Convention protesters had gathered in that same spot.

Reporter Robert McCoppin tells us that Sheriff Mark Curran appointed an "independent attorney" 20 months ago to look into the deaths of two former inmates: Eugene Gruber, who was paralyzed when his neck was broken in a scuffle with officers in October 2011 and who died four months later; and Lyvita Gomes, who in January 2012 died 15 days into a ... (more)

Mayor Rahm Emanuel and Chicago Park District Superintendent Michael Kelly announced that online registration for winter park programming begins today.

Chefs Mario Batali and Joe Bastianich bring their culinary theme park to Chicago.

A Chicago man has been charged with armed robbery after police said he stole a tablet computer from a Naperville man at gunpoint.

Last Tuesday I went to Doc Films for back-to-back screenings of Dziga Vertov's Enthusiasm and Olivier Assayas's Clean , two films with very little in common.