MAP: Craft breweries around Chicago
Chicago’s craft beer scene is booming, thanks in large part to stalwarts like Revolution and Half Acre, not to mention the granddaddy of local suds, Goose Island. Every week, it...
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From wax packs to mobile apps: Baseball card collecting goes digital to reconnect with kids
Elite Sports Cards and Comics has been in the same simple Ravenswood storefront for 23 years. Owner John Merkel has seen baseball stars come and go: Sammy Sosa and Mark...
Tim Horton’s introduces ‘spicy’ Buffalo latte
Pumpkin spice is so passe. Tim Horton's, the Canadian quick-service restaurant chain that has 94 locations in the U.S., has offered up a challenge to the reigning king of fall...
We felt alone after our son’s rare medical diagnosis. Then we found thousands of friends.
Being thrust into the world of rare medical conditions has been an unexpected part of my first year of fatherhood. William was born in January. He was perfect, 10 fingers,...
McMilestones: Steve Easterbrook’s big moments
McDonald's has changed more in the last 18 months than it has in decades, making efforts to simplify and clean up its food, introducing all-day breakfast, and announcing a new...
‘Megabrew’ merger expected to close in October
The imminent merger of the world's two largest beer companies is expected to close Oct. 10, AB InBev said in documents posted to its website Monday. The $104 billion deal...
More than 1,000 Southwest flights canceled, delayed as issues stretch into third day
More than 1,000 Southwest Airlines flights have been canceled or delayed Friday, as the airline deals with the fallout of a computer glitch that grounded its planes Wednesday and caused...
Super Bowl commercials have come a long way in 50 years
Super Bowl ads didn’t become Super Bowl ads until the 1970s, and they’ve come a long way since Apple’s iconic “1984” spot aired in, well, 1984. The commercial seared the...
Man critically wounded in shooting at Aurora party
A 22-year-old man was critically wounded in an Aurora shooting early Saturday, police said. The man was attending a party in the 600 block of Lake Street when a "disturbance"...
Chief Keef’s hologram concert shut down by police in Hammond
Rapper Chief Keef appeared — via hologram — at a Hammond music festival Saturday night, but his performance was shut down by police within minutes. The concert, planned as a...