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It's not hard to come across evidence of Chicago's thriving heroin business , especially amid the open-air markets on the west side .

Whether you need a gift for a friend, a homesick Chicagoan, or just yourself, there is no shortage of edible options available around town.

Critics I've read who have commented on the Sunday finale of Homeland say the show made the right move.

Outside it may not look very much like baseball weather, but the game of baseball has really evolved into a year round sport.

A woman in her 30s was transported in critical condition to Northwestern Memorial Hospital after being pulled from the icy water early Tuesday morning.

Copies of The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell are kept in the reference section of the Harold Washington Library on December 17, 2013 in Chicago, Illinois.

They were walking along the Riverwalk around 4 a.m. when Garnett apparently slipped and fell into the water near the Michigan Avenue bridge.

It looks like Christmas has come early for the city's film exhibitors. First it comes to light that the Patio Theater will not have to close its doors .

Tucked into the tony Gold Coast neighborhood, the 247-room Thompson Chicago opened its doors in early October as the first in a string of luxury boutique hotels slated to debut in Chicago over the next six months .

An armed bank robber is dead after police tried to apprehend the suspect who had just robbed the Chase Bank branch in the 900 block of Grove Street around 3 p.m. Monday afternoon, according to CBS Chicago.

Kinzie Hotel , opening in February 2014 in the heart of Chicago's bustling River North neighborhood in a space currently occupied by the Amalfi Hotel, reveals an urban exploration design scheme inspired by Chicago's rich history and landscape displayed throughout the upscale, boutique property.

"Kanye West's sixth solo LP, Yeezus , is a messy pile of contradictions: a rap record that sounds like industrial music, it vacillates between enlightened political consciousness and garish celebrity complaints, between self-aggrandizement and self-loathing, and between snarling noise and hooky pop," writes Miles Raymer in Soundboard .

Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti, House Arrest This is the album I've listened to the most in the past three months.

Hull House Theatre in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood could soon be demolished to make room for an apartment complex.

Illinois Senator Dick Durbin turned up the heat on a petroleum coke storage facility on Chicago's Southeast Side on Monday.

Before I ordered the Cassoulet Hot at Hoppin' Hots , the upscale hot dog joint in the Andersonville storefront formerly occupied by Great Lake pizza, I had never paid $8 for a hot dog outside of a sports arena.

Most bosses like to think of themselves as good bosses and the businesses they run as happy families.

Just because you're in a strange city doesn't mean you should be forced to wile away the evenings in your hotel bar.

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Hotel developer Mike Bennett's restaurant group plans to reopen the shuttered Queen Anne's Revenge on Daniel Island as The Islander.