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  • For families with autistic kids, a chance to dine out without stress or stares

    For families with autistic kids, a chance to dine out without stress or stares

    The scene at Fireside restaurant in Ravenswood is pleasant and peaceful, with children playing, conversation humming and the smell of bacon rising from the buffet table. But make no mistake, this is no ordinary weekend brunch. A 12-year-old boy communicates his desire for more bacon with grunts....

  • 5 ways to remind someone you care

    5 ways to remind someone you care

    It's not hard for some relationships to fall through the cracks, especially when work gets hectic. Whether you constantly travel, maintain the standard 9-to-5 or have a seemingly incompatible schedule with every other person, making time for an hourlong catch-up phone call with your best friend,...

  • As 'Flip or Flop' stars sign on for new season, tips for working with an ex

    As 'Flip or Flop' stars sign on for new season, tips for working with an ex

    Sharing an office with an ex might be an unusual — and unpleasant — situation. For HGTV "Flip or Flop" stars Tarek and Christina El Moussa, signing on for more episodes will mean working together despite their split last year. The show announced this week that it has extended the seventh season....

  • Former Chicagoan bets big on Vegas food tours

    Former Chicagoan bets big on Vegas food tours

    "Forget about those old buffet-table days," Donald Contursi says about the white-hot food scene in this neon-lit desert city. "Vegas today is a culinary magnet, featuring celebrity chefs, Michelin-starred French masters and the most master sommeliers in the U.S.," he says. "People now come just...

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  • 'My Neighborhood: Pilsen' explores community's perseverance and efforts to change

    'My Neighborhood: Pilsen' explores community's perseverance and efforts to change

    Leadership, resilience and community-led change have made strides in one Chicago neighborhood from the inside out. And WTTW Chicago’s new documentary “My Neighborhood: Pilsen,” gives an intimate look inside the Pilsen community through the stories of its Latino residents, exploring how its community...

  • New Chicago summer festivals for 2017

    New Chicago summer festivals for 2017

    There's no place like Chicago in the summer. The sun is (usually) shining, there's beer in abundance and festivals every weekend. This year, Chicago is home to a plethora of fests for any interest: From tacos and tequila to zines and Gospel music, there's no pigeonholing Chicago's festival season. ...

  • Another boozy Taco Bell is headed to Chicago

    Another boozy Taco Bell is headed to Chicago

    It's midnight on a Saturday and you stumble out of whatever bar you've been frequenting somewhere downtown, desperately craving a Taco Bell Cheesy Gordita Crunch and a cheap but delicious margarita as a chaser. Instead of hauling yourself into the back of an Uber and heading to Wicker Park, Chicagoans...

  • 5 things to do in Chicago this weekend

    5 things to do in Chicago this weekend

    From thinking pink at a rosé tasting event to reliving childhood memories during a live performance of “Aladdin” or “Mary Poppins,” here's what we're up to this weekend. SHOW OF HANDS Get your digits on quality crafts at the Show of Hands spring showcase this weekend, April 28-30. The three-day...

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  • Alfa Romeo graduates with beautiful vehicles, better quality in return to U.S.

    Alfa Romeo graduates with beautiful vehicles, better quality in return to U.S.

    Alfa Romeo conjures romantic images of winning races, screaming sports cars, and finely tuned sedans, but also reminds older generations of questionable quality that helped dislodge the Italian brand from the U.S. market 20 years ago. Alfa is back with a new generation of sports cars and crossovers...

  • Cleaner, better gas is coming, but you'll pay more for it

    Cleaner, better gas is coming, but you'll pay more for it

    Automakers and oil companies are quietly developing a new generation of fuels and engines to run more efficiently on them, generating more power from less gasoline to reduce emissions and boost fuel economy. But industry executives are reluctant to talk publicly about their research. Why so quiet?...

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  • What Rauner is up against — the Boss

    What Rauner is up against — the Boss

    Gov. Bruce Rauner has made some mistakes in delivering his message, and I've been critical of his efforts. But as he seeks re-election, as the state drowns in debt, as Boss Madigan rubs his thin fingers with icy glee, what is Rauner up against? Part of what he's up against is Democratic patronage...

  • Shooting suspect charged in slaying of judge, wounding of judge's girlfriend

    Shooting suspect charged in slaying of judge, wounding of judge's girlfriend

    A man with a long prison stint in his background for attempted murder fatally shot a Cook County judge and wounded his girlfriend outside the judge's residence earlier this month, Chicago police said Thursday in announcing the first-degree murder charges. At a news conference Thursday evening at...

  • 120 years for Chicago man in Mundelein child rape

    120 years for Chicago man in Mundelein child rape

    Referring to the case as the worst he has seen in his legal career, a Lake County Circuit Court judge sentenced a Chicago man to 120 years in prison Wednesday for the November 2013 kidnapping and rape of a 3-year-old Mundelein girl. Judge Mark Levitt imposed the maximum sentence available upon...

  • Rapper Kevin Gates gets 30 months in prison for Chicago gun charge

    Rapper Kevin Gates gets 30 months in prison for Chicago gun charge

    A Louisiana rapper whose 2016 studio album reached No. 2 on the Billboard Top 200 was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday after pleading guilty to a gun charge from a Chicago arrest. Kevin Jerome Gilyard, 31, known by his stage name Kevin Gates, pleaded guilty to being a felon in possession...

  • Rutter: Jerry Sloan only wanted to say a last goodbye

    Rutter: Jerry Sloan only wanted to say a last goodbye

    He seemed a man among children. Quiet, confident, never self-focused. He acted like you always thought men were supposed to act. He was Lou Gehrig and Atticus Finch. He wore John Deere caps when no one looked. He was shy. He never sought to seem what he wasn't. If you admire grand souls, you would...

  • Gov. Rauner reaches the 839-day benchmark and it's not pretty

    Gov. Rauner reaches the 839-day benchmark and it's not pretty

    Saturday, as we've all heard, will mark President Donald Trump's 100th day in office, a traditional performance benchmark. Less well known is that Saturday will also mark the 839th day in office for Illinois Gov. Bruce Rauner. Admittedly, 839 doesn't have the same pleasing roundness or historical...

  • $4 billion plan to widen Tri-State won't require tax money, toll hike: officials

    $4 billion plan to widen Tri-State won't require tax money, toll hike: officials

    The Illinois Tollway board on Thursday unanimously voted in favor of a plan to widen the busy central Tri-State, an ambitious $4 billion project the agency says can be funded without tax money and without increasing tolls. The rebuilding and widening proposal, an expansion from an earlier $1.9...

  • Jesse Jackson Jr. agrees to pay alimony to estranged wife Sandi Jackson

    Jesse Jackson Jr. agrees to pay alimony to estranged wife Sandi Jackson

    Ex-Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr. has agreed to pay his estranged wife, former Chicago Ald. Sandi Jackson, $1,200 a month in temporary alimony starting in June, a court document filed Thursday shows. A proposed order setting out the payments was signed by attorneys for both Jacksons and won't take effect...

  • Geneva woman pleads guilty to killing husband with poisoned smoothie

    Geneva woman pleads guilty to killing husband with poisoned smoothie

    Julia Gutierrez pleaded guilty but mentally ill Thursday to murdering her husband, Eduardo, in their Geneva home with a poisoned smoothie. In January 2016 she gave him a smoothie containing a fatal dose of six Temazepam pills. On Thursday, she was sentenced to 22 years in prison as part of an agreement...

  • Schools crack down on student absences for vacations

    Schools crack down on student absences for vacations

    It was the Friday before spring break, but at Jackson Elementary School in Elmhurst, 58 of the school's 448 students already were far away from their classrooms. The parents of 23 of those students had filed written requests to Principal Ryan Anderson to take their children out of school early...

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