When you first walk out under the deafening blades in the heliport of Chicago Helicopter Experience, an overwhelming excitement fills you as you realize that speaking is obsolete. The ground crew…
Monthly Archives: September 2018
It was a double-bill of two great songwriters—Johnny Rivers and Jimmy Webb. And all of Ravinia fell completely under their spell. Opening the show and making his Ravinia…
You don’t have to drive across the country to find gorgeous tangerine and magenta fall vistas. Three easy-to-get-to Midwestern areas, Galena, IL, Geneva, WI, and Bloomington/Brown County, IN,…
The Chicago Cubs and White Sox rivalry has been going on ever since the 1906 World Series game, in which the White Sox beat the Cubs in the first Crosstown Chicago…
Ah, coffee. That thing that wakes us up every morning and gets us out of bed. The one beverage that can both cure a morning headache and energize…
While Chance the Rapper the rapper was hosting his Open Mike event for local high school students at Harold Washington Library on Monday night, he brought out rapper Kanye…
The summer is almost over and so is the canoeing season; however, fall is still a great chance to get out on the water before winter. Fall foliage…
Looking to raise a little hell this month? Well, bless your heart—The Chicago Country Crawl makes its triumphant return to Wrigleyville on Saturday, September 22 from 11 am…
Yet again, we’ve gotta give it up to our internet overlords at Amazon.com. The company’s experimental, cashier-less grocery store—Amazon Go—has finally opened one of its two new locations…
Big city living is bound to have some stereotypes attached to it and Chicago is no exception; we get asked all kinds of dumbass questions, as if we all…