Oakbrook Center's new Dior Beauty boutique features a Francis Kurkdjian-designed fragrance bar and a screen streaming Dior runway shows.

Sip & Guzzle's five-month residency hits the 46th-floor Mile High Cocktail Club starting next week, with $85 tastings and skyline views.

The Devon Avenue coffee spot is leasing the former Bentley's Pet Stuff next door to fix its chronic seating crunch.

Owner Carlos Arechiga eyes a January 2027 opening inside a revamped former Giordano's near County Line Road.

Chef Angela McCrovitz swapped Vermont's Green Mountains for Northwest Indiana, dishing soup from a converted school bus styled like an old apothecary.

Three up-and-coming chefs take over the kitchen at Ravenswood Event Center for one night each, with a Mi Tocaya Antojería cook up first.

Hell's BBQ wants village cash to help turn the old Danelli's building into its new downtown Oswego home.

The 30-seat speakeasy below LIA Tavern serves a Warhol Martini dispensed through a hanging metal tube.

No alcohol, no problem: Evanston's Palmhouse hosts a German-style festival built entirely around zero-proof beer and zero-pressure mingling.

The Edgebrook Shopping Center staple shuts its doors this weekend, even as a rival Mexican eatery nearby also folds the same day.

Owner Song Park says new building owners pushed up the closing by weeks to start renovations on Sherman Avenue.

Katz's pickles, rye croutons and beetroot powder meet vanilla soft serve at Kith's Walton Street flagship.

Carlos Arechiga's new seafood-and-cocktail concept is filling the long-vacant Reza's space at Sherman and Orrington.