River North News

For just one chance to work with Tony Award-winning choreographer Ann Reinking, most dance companies would turn in their leotards; for a second chance, their liniment.

This isn't the restaurant's fault. The location should be a slam-dunk - not merely in the heart of downtown, but inside Citygarden, the new sculpture park that is second only to Brendan Ryan 's mustache as the funkiest thing to appear in St.

Terkel Humanitarian: Because of his community service as founder and co-principal cellist and general manager of the Highland Park Strings, as well as serving as president of the Rotary Club of Highland Park and as a trustee for the Ravinia Festival, Larry Block , of Highland Park, received the 2009 Studs Terkel Humanitarian Service Award.

Though fine dining may have cooled off a little as a result of the past year's economic turmoil, celeb chefs remain as popular as ever.

Michigan State University's Department of Theatre is living up to its season's theme of diverse destinations.

Have a costume but still don't know where you're going for Halloween? Don't worry, there are plenty of parties you can get in to- last minute.

List Price: $1.499 million The Property: It's a view property, but what you see from this two-story townhouse at the base of a River North condo tower isn't the usual grand sweep of skyline or lake.

Street food, popular with both natives and tourists in many cities across the globe, takes a different twist in Chicago, where prohibitive outdoor vending laws put the kibosh on most food carts.

DanceOUT with River North Dance Company The Center on Halsted hosts this sneak a peek of RivNo's world premieres set to debut Nov 7 at the Harris Theater - hang out for a little Q&A and meet the artists.

Share + Oct 22, 2009 6:17 am US/Central 1 of 1 This billboard at Grand Avenue and LaSalle Street was put up by the Chicago Coalition of Reason, to encourage atheists and agnostics to talk about their beliefs.

Just when we thought that you couldn't get anything better on Chicago's Michigan Avenue than The Peninsula , we stayed at the Raffaello Hotel a mere two blocks away.

Dance found Jason Hortin at an early age and since then, it hasn't let him go for long.

Stephen Wambach, the former corporate chef for Laurent Tourondel' s BLT Restaurant Group in New York, plans to open the locally minded Epic toward the end of November in River North.

While Michael Jackson's three children deeply miss their father, Paris, Prince Michael and Prince Michael II -- known as ''Blanket'' -- are slowly adjusting to a new life and world without Daddy.

Last night, Maxim Magazine celebrated the food of Chef James Gottwald of Rockit Bar & Grill.

Remember snipping construction paper, coloring with crayons or whiling away an hour or two creating a masterpiece? Art is as good a mental release for adults as children, but before you start hitting up Junior for his Sharpies, head to Tuesday Evenings in the Cafe at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

On Saturday, August 29, the AIDS Foundation of Chicago hosted its 18th annual Dance for Life benefit at the Harris Theater for Music and Dance.

After a year of business, Farmerie 58 , a massive Gold Coast space with an identity crisis , has closed.

Jane Jasnak perfected her recipe for doughy, delicious Neapolitan pizza in her Burr Ridge home, where her 11- and 14-year-old sons couldn't get enough of the stuff.

SOFA CHICAGO 2009, the critically acclaimed Sculpture Objects & Functional Art Fair returning to Navy Pier's Festiv Al Hall this November to showcase three-dimensional masterworks from top international galleries and dealers, proudly presents A Superior Stroll: A SOFA CHICAGO Sneak Preview Benefitting River North Chicago Dance Company, Tuesday, ...