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In this photo made Monday, Nov. 16, 2009, packages move along a conveyor system to outgoing truck for final shipment inside the 800,000 sq.

Retail Web sites have bumped back deadlines and offer free express shipping after weekend snowstorms kept holiday shoppers home in large areas of the East Coast.

Retail Web sites have bumped back deadlines and offer free express shipping after weekend snowstorms kept holiday shoppers home in large areas of the East Coast.

You may be just catching your breath after finally wrapping up your Christmas shopping.

If you're looking for the best wine bars in Chicago, you'll find that they are not just for wine connoisseurs.

Hilly Schiffer, State Journal photojournalist, poses for a picture with her mom, Jan Schiffer, during a cold, windy Chicago day at Navy Pier.

The snowstorm that blanketed the East Coast, closing malls and snowing in shoppers, spelled trouble for retailers, but elsewhere in the country stores saw a strong turnout on the last weekend before Christmas.

Steppenwolf Theatre Co. celebrated its inaugural fundraising Behind the Curtain event on Oct.

One great thing about living in Janesville is the proximity to other cities. A few hours from Chicago, an hour from Milwaukee and about 30 minutes to either Rockford or Madison.

The holidays are a time to pass blessings on to others. And that's exactly what Spencer Leak Jr.

When I am feeling a special case of the mean reds, there's only one solution: I zip out of town and lap up a long weekend in my other most favorite city in America.

Is there such a thing any more as a unique Chicago gift? You know what I'm talking about: something that shouts, "I live in Chicago, and you don't. Eat your heart out!" In this homogenized, merged, downsized, Internet-accessed world of ours with its service economy where nobody here still makes anything, it often seems there is increasingly little ...

What makes an excellent dining experience in a tourist city like Chicago? Is it atmosphere, great food, friendly staff, attentive management, quality inputs, affordability, location or cleanliness? Well, it's all of the above, right? Depending on your background, experience, personal habits, and the extent to which you are sensitive or squeamish, ...

SHOPPING & STYLE - Shoes, shopping and swapping at adidas Give a little and get a lot back tonight.

Submitted by Keiths Komments on Sun, 12/06/2009 - 19:54. There is no longer a Marshall Field's Department Store on State Street in Chicago.

Chicago is known for its museums. Featuring some of the most prominent collections of modern art anywhere in the world , visitors flock to what have become some of Chicago's most preeminent attractions.

Canyon Capital Realty Advisors , through its Canyon Value Opportunity Fund, has acquired Hotel 71, a 437-room, 40-story independent hotel strategically located on Wacker Drive one block from Michigan Avenue in Chicago, IL.

The view northeast from the Willis Tower will change if the projects in the works reach completion.

Geneva is the kind of place that teenagers long to leave when they are grown. Sooo boring, they whine, that the sidewalks roll up at 9 p.m. So, they go away to college, then maybe get an apartment in Chicago.

A Chicago teen's 'Make-A-Wish' came true on Monday. Beatrice Dixon, 14, got the royal treatment at Macy's on State Street.