Wicker Park News

Time's almost up for the aughts, so when better to look back at the past decade in restaurants? Here are the 10 restaurants that opened in the past decade with the highest Food scores .

Commuters stopping at the Red Hen Bread bakery on North Milwaukee Avenue in Bucktown can also check to see when the next CTA bus will pull up at the corner, without leaving the cinnamon-toasty warmth of the store.

The Ruanphae family, whose Chicago-area Thai restaurant has won praise, has opened a new location at 1124 N. High Street.

Carrie Schneider doesn't like having her picture taken. It's an odd confession given the 30-year-old photographer/video artist's affinity for self-portraiture. But like Cindy Sherman and Tracey Moffatt before her, Schneider's arresting self-portraits aren't exactly literal.

For a while it was fashionable to lament the shuttering of the Pontiac Cafe as the latest desecration of Wicker Park.

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Wicker Park has been ahead of its time dating back to 1959, when writer Nelson Algren moved into a three-flat on Evergreen Avenue.

Staying home with a newborn can make you stir crazy. Your options: Put your head in the oven.

Holiday toy shoppers can use gift guides and gift finders from Chicago toy stores to find out what the stores themselves consider to be the best presents for any child.

Our foodie group sauntered into Taxim last Wednesday to check out the scene. The visual is that of a European long hallway type of structure with many archways.

There's a barbershop opening in Wicker Park on October 31, and it's a shop like only one other in the city.

Boo Palooza is a Halloween celebration that includes activities in the business districts and in Wicker Park, Pulaski Park and Pritzker School on Sat.

Like a doting momma, NBCChicago.com just wants to feed you. Bite Me is our twice-weekly look at the most succulent dishes Chicago has to offer.

Some cities have a night scene, some a historic scene and others offer a city full of culture and art.

Your day's organized by two simple forces: the El, which determines your traveling, and food, which is delicious and keeps you from dying.

Admit it: With the usual overflow of video games hitting stores this fall, it's time to purge.

"Wicker Women," photographer Jennifer Bisbing's documentary project celebrating the faces of women who work and/or live in Chicago's Wicker Park neighborhood debuts Oct.

Well, Chicago may have pretty awful winters, our CTA is in disrepair, and we just lost our bid for the 2016 Olympics , but you know one thing that our broud-shouldered city does have going for it? Chicago VeganMania , coming to the Pulaski Park Fieldhouse on October 10! This is not going to Rio, I promise you that.

West Town is what Wicker Park was ten years ago: shoddy spots, great grub, and zero pretension.

Division Street is no Roscoe Village or Southport Corridor - yet - but with his new Irish-ish Division Ale House, Baris Yuksel hopes to draw in the stroller set by day and serious drinkers by night.