50 Chicagoland restaurants and bars open on Christmas Day

You don’t have to eat Chinese food on Christmas.

Chicago Asian-American Jazz Festival mixes it up this weekend

The 14th annual Chicago Asian American Jazz Festival kicks off Thursday with the first of three CD-release concerts. The fest showcases the best of Chicago’s contemporary Asian American music and collaborations, bringing together the modern sounds of American-born jazz with the traditional music of the artists’ Asian heritage. “Through music,” says saxophonist Francis Wong, “I [...]

Revisiting Chicago in the 1930s

“If you think that Chicago, from a gourmet’s point of view, is nothing more than a maze of red-hot stands, chili parlors, cafeterias, barbecue stalls, one-arm joints, chop suey restaurants, counter lunch rooms and all other such human filling stations, artistically embellished with bullet holes, you’re as mistaken as Columbus was when he started out [...]