Chicago Weekend Fun!

This past summer’s local Chicago Theater hit from Steppenwolf Theater August: Osage County won six Joseph Jefferson Awards this year for 2007. The Jeff awards are given to celebrate the best in Chicago theater. (no a Jeff award isn’t an award given by some random guy named Jeff) I saw this play back in August in Chicago and it was [...]

I was recently asked about how to survive a Chicago winter by someone moving here from a warm southern state who had never dealt with extreme cold, wind, snow and Ice. I have lived in Chicago all my life, so I figured I could help with some tips for survival and hopefully help him avoid [...]

In Chicago there are now 2 radio stations that play Christmas Music non-stop from November 3rd until December 31st. They both are getting rid of DJs and the regular formats in favor of all Christmas Carols and Holiday Music all the time for the next 2 months. I heard about this on the news but then [...]

Martha Stewart will be in Chicago at the Macy’s State Street Store on November 10 at Noon to light the official historic Macy’s (Marshall Field’s) Walnut Room Christmas tree. It is the 100th anneversary of the christmas tree in the Walnut Room so what better way to celebrate than have Martha come light it in person? (The Walnut Room opened in [...]

Today I got an email from the Hillside Garbage Landfill Closure Project. They wanted to let all of us know who drive by the dump along side 290 at the Hillside strangler, that they have successfully closed off one portion of the dump. We are grateful for that and hope that the stench ends soon. It [...]

The Chicago Tribune reports that the CTA has received 27 Million dollars in funding from the state of Illinois in a last minute bailout cash “infusion”. I’m not exactly sure what “infusion” means in this scenario but we take it that extra funds were approved from somewhere in the Illinois state budget and the price hikes and route [...]

What’s going on in Chicago this weekend?
It’s fall now, the leaves have mostly fallen and we are picking through the last of the Halloween candy and thinking about Thanksgiving and Christmas. (started you shopping yet?) But there are still a lot of things going on in Chicago during this holiday intermission. There are always new movies released [...]

This is new. The City of Chicago is hosting a Museum of Modern Ice exhibit in Millennium Park this February. The City of Chicago’s Tourism Bureau is always coming up with new cool things to see and do in Chicago in the winter since it’s too cold to just hang out and have fun. We like [...]

Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner doesn’t have to be at home to be special. Some of us don’t cook and need a place to take the family, kids and relatives on Thanksgiving. There are some options for delivery of a Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner pre-cooked to your door or you can just go to the food at a local or [...]