Desmond’s Pub like one big happy Irish family
Jack Desmond's Irish Pub & Restaurant in Chicago Ridge, which opened in 2000, has become known as a meeting place for Irish organizations and families and as a casual spot...
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Southland goes green for St. Patrick’s season
Rest up and get ready for the greening of the South Side. It's time for parades and pub crawls, bagpipers and step dancers, corned beef dinners and fish fry Fridays....
Pub runs: Workouts with a chaser
A "beer run" used to mean out the door for cold ones to carry home. Now it's all about carrying your bod on the road to fitness with a frothy...
A trolley good time: Six stops on Orland Park Irish tour
There are pub crawls where you have to hoof it. And then there are pub crawls where you hop on an enclosed trolley with alcohol in hand if you wish....
Manhattan gets jump on Irish merriment
Irish entertainment, women's and men's rugby matches, a parade, 5k, Irish breakfast and mass and more will fill the small village of Manhattan March 3 and 4. Held two weeks...
Old Town goes old school with old world favorites
What better way to celebrate Casimir Pulaski Day – or any day, really – than enjoying some pierogi, kielbasa, kapusta and golumpki? Polish and other European fare is the specialty...
Five more things to do
Whether you prefer the quiet calm of nature or want to party hardy as they do in New Orleans, upcoming events have you covered. *Joliet Restaurant Week, various locations; www.jolietrestaurantweek.com....
Freshen your cocktail?
Cocktails from the Prohibition Era are hotsy totsy once again with fresh twists, from unique ingredients to higher-quality and more varied spirits. Small batch is indeed the bee's knees. Be...
Hard-rocking, health-minded Tesla busy as ever
Life just seems to keep gettin' better for Tesla. The hard rockers named after Nikola Tesla, the inventor of alternating current, and whose blue-collar appeal was a fresh alternative to...
Steaks, seafood, Prohibition-era cocktails on menu at classy Opera House
A chef who hand cuts all wet-aged steaks and an in-house pastry chef are the behind-the-scenes stars of a new upscale Plainfield steakhouse in a grand setting that housed operas,...