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The 50-year-old slugging third baseman is entering her fifth decade of play and showing no signs of slowing down.

When it comes to our annual Best of Chicago issue, we at the Reader strive to be as democratic as possible.

If you're looking to break it to the parents that you've been hiding an obscure body piercing that you got back in college, when you may or may not have been under the influence of some choice substances, you might as well do it with style, right? Scylla Jewelry crafts masterpieces to adorn whatever body parts you decided to poke a hole through, ... (more)

I feel bad saying this - considering she's my best friend and all - but my dog really smells.

Toward the end of last year, Lakeview lost three animal friends that had been a part of the neighborhood for nearly thirty years.

If you're looking for a refreshing, natural way to drink this summer, GREY GOOSEA Press has your answer.

Summer concert season is in full swing in Chicago. And while the list of great concerts for this weekend is a bit thin, we've found your best bets for Saturday and Sunday.

This is good. Now Chicagoans hold even the most modest of dishes to higher standards, which elevates the playing field for foods that many once left to franchises and chains.

A man previously convicted of sex trafficking in Cook County has been charged again, this time for allegedly kidnapping a Minnesota woman and bringing her to Chicago to work in the sex trade.

A woman leaning on crutches and glancing at her cell phone as she tried to hail a taxi in the Loop Tuesday evening.

Besides a statue in Chicago's Grant Park , there is a Lincoln statue in Chicago's Lincoln Park .

A SWAT team went into an apartment Tuesday morning to arrest a man accused of shooting two men in a back yard last week.

Eight restaurant booths set up Tuesday in Daley Plaza served up an array of saliva-inducing plates to visitors craving a sampling of this year's Taste of Chicago offerings.

Camus wrote that there is only one truly serious philosophical question-and that is suicide.

Are you one of approximately 8,000 industry professionals attending Techweek in its founding city of Chicago next week? This 3-day innovation conference and technology expo is taking place on June 27-29th at the massive and historic, Art Deco Merchandise Mart located on the banks of the Chicago River.

Julie Dahlinger, who portrays Hollywood star Katie Holmes, acts out verbatim dialogue from a Seventeen magazine interview, as her overprotective family from Toledo, Ohio, tells the audience how Holmes got the leading role in the late 90s teen drama Dawson's Creek .

Activists plan to collect toilet paper donations outside an event featuring Chicago Public Schools CEO Barbara Byrd-Bennett.

Millennium Park chairwoman Donna LaPietra says the screen will function like a big TV and connect the pavilion with free culture, sports and entertainment from around the world.

Millennium Park's summer film series is back. While there have been a couple movies shown already this year, tonight's screening of the glossy, bombastic musical Chicago -preceded by a Roger Ebert tribute-is the official kick-off event.

For one day , Fat Rice is taking reservations. For the fifth time, extending back to the years when Abraham Conlon and Adrienne Lo ran the underground dining club X-Marx, they're holding a day-long series in conjunction with Perman Wine Selections celebrating the Spanish white wine Txakolina.