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We’re all getting used to cutting loose and having fun again. We've got you covered with the best things to eat, drink and do in Chicago.

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Biblioracle: Patrick deWitt’s books are fascinating, and his latest is ‘Dodge City’ chicagotribune.com/2026/10/3…
Biblioracle: Patrick deWitt’s books are fascinating, and his latest is ‘Dodge City’

Biblioracle: Patrick deWitt’s books are fascinating, and his latest is ‘Dodge City’

Patrick deWitt’s brilliant comic touch and gift for bringing characters to life through sharp and distinctive dialogue are unmatched.

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Make notes now for next year’s garden chicagotribune.com/2026/10/3…
Make notes now for next year’s garden

Make notes now for next year’s garden

As fall swirls toward winter, spend a little time out in the garden taking stock of what went well and what you’d like to improve in the next growing season. “It will be easier to bring the growing...

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Not-so-scary tradition brings the spirit of Halloween to youngest UI Health patients chicagotribune.com/2026/10/3…
Not-so-scary tradition brings the spirit of Halloween to youngest UI Health patients

Not-so-scary tradition brings the spirit of Halloween to youngest UI Health patients

About 200 UIC costumed hospital staffers joined young patients who parade through the hallways for candy and uplifted spirits.

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As Día de Muertos goes mainstream, who the ofrendas in Pilsen are actually for chicagotribune.com/2026/10/3…
As Día de Muertos goes mainstream, who the ofrendas in Pilsen are actually for

As Día de Muertos goes mainstream, who the ofrendas in Pilsen are actually for

Decades ago, in the early 1990s, when the annual Día de Muertos exhibit at the National Museum of Mexican Art in Pilsen was still new, Cesáreo Moreno, now chief curator, would get calls from Chicago...

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Improv teams old and new celebrate 45 years of iO Theater chicagotribune.com/2026/10/3…
Improv teams old and new celebrate 45 years of iO Theater

Improv teams old and new celebrate 45 years of iO Theater

iO Theater, Chicago’s home for longform improv, is turning 45 this year and throwing a three-day party to celebrate: IO45, which runs Nov. 5-7.

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Duke Mallard ‘boogies down’ as Oak Lawn Park District mascot chicagotribune.com/2026/10/3…
Duke Mallard ‘boogies down’ as Oak Lawn Park District mascot

Duke Mallard ‘boogies down’ as Oak Lawn Park District mascot

Duke Mallard, the official mascot of the Oak Lawn Park District after taking over for Seemore Eagle, keeps building a fan base.

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Today in Chicago History: Medinah Temple opens chicagotribune.com/2026/10/3…
Today in Chicago History: Medinah Temple opens

Today in Chicago History: Medinah Temple opens

Here’s a look back at what happened in the Chicago area on Oct. 30, according to the Tribune’s archives.

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Review: Potent ‘A Few Good Men’ on Broadway needs a lawyer we can believe in chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Review: Potent ‘A Few Good Men’ on Broadway needs a lawyer we can believe in

“You can’t handle the truth” is writer Aaron’s Sorkin’s most famous line in his play about a military trial. It’s back on Broadway with a terrific Bradley Whitford as Colonel Jessep.

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WNBA fans rally around Babe’s Sports Bar for Finals game after rescheduling uproar: ‘It’s just bad business’ chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

WNBA fans rally around Babe’s Sports Bar for Finals game after rescheduling uproar: ‘It’s just bad...

Spurred by the rescheduling of Game 6 of the WNBA Finals from prime time to a matinee, fans flocked to women’s sports bars in Chicago and beyond Thursday.

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An O’Hare Starbucks and a Lockport Subway location rated among worst in the US in Google reviews study chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
An O’Hare Starbucks and a Lockport Subway location rated among worst in the US in Google reviews...

An O’Hare Starbucks and a Lockport Subway location rated among worst in the US in Google reviews...

Both Chicago-area stores made the lists released recently by seobacklinks.com, a web SEO firm, based on Google reviews pulled earlier this month.

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Sweet Moon brings Eastern European pastries, honey cake to Wilmette chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
Sweet Moon brings Eastern European pastries, honey cake to Wilmette

Sweet Moon brings Eastern European pastries, honey cake to Wilmette

The bakery opened its second Chicago area location Oct. 24, across from Wilmette’s Metra Station at 1222 Washington Court.

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Patrick Stewart, stage giant also of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86 chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
Patrick Stewart, stage giant also of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86

Patrick Stewart, stage giant also of ‘Star Trek’ and ‘X-Men’ fame, dies at 86

Patrick Stewart, the classically trained stage actor who scaled the Shakespearean canon and added gravitas to a “Star Trek” franchise and the “X-Men” films, has died. He was 86.

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Kim Kardashian undergoes surgery for esophagus ‘irregularity’ chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
Kim Kardashian undergoes surgery for esophagus ‘irregularity’

Kim Kardashian undergoes surgery for esophagus ‘irregularity’

Kim Kardashian appears to have undergone a medical procedure after doctors discovered “irregularities” in her throat that needed to be removed.

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The giant skeleton has become an American Halloween fixture chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
The giant skeleton has become an American Halloween fixture

The giant skeleton has become an American Halloween fixture

Beginning in 2020, Skelly showed up on suburban lawns from California to New Jersey, towering over jack-o’-lanterns and plastic gravestones.

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Sparrow Coffee opens in Clarendon Hills after three year wait chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
Sparrow Coffee opens in Clarendon Hills after three year wait

Sparrow Coffee opens in Clarendon Hills after three year wait

Sparrow Coffee, which opened in Naperville in 2018, has long been rumored to be coming to Clarendon Hills, and finally opened there.

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Kevin Bleyer, ‘Daily Show’ and Obama writer, killed in car crash chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…

Kevin Bleyer, ‘Daily Show’ and Obama writer, killed in car crash

Emmy Award winning “Daily Show” writer Kevin Bleyer, 54, died in a car crash Sunday. He also wrote speeches for President Obama.

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What to do in Chicago: Haunted Halsted, ‘Frankenstein’ and more for Halloween chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
What to do in Chicago: Haunted Halsted, ‘Frankenstein’ and more for Halloween

What to do in Chicago: Haunted Halsted, ‘Frankenstein’ and more for Halloween

Haunted Halsted has a full day of events before the parade this year, Geese plays Salt Shed and Chicago museums get into the Halloween spirit.

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Review: ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ a gritty and likable character study chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
Review: ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ a gritty and likable character study

Review: ‘The Only Living Pickpocket in New York’ a gritty and likable character study

John Turturro is terrific in this tribute to the “they don’t make them like they used to” genre of indie dramas from the 1970s.

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Ah-hoooo! Werewolves of Wisconsin: Why an Elkhorn legend refuses to die chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
Ah-hoooo! Werewolves of Wisconsin: Why an Elkhorn legend refuses to die

Ah-hoooo! Werewolves of Wisconsin: Why an Elkhorn legend refuses to die

Something that looks an awful lot like a werewolf has been sighted for decades on a rural road outside of Lake Geneva in Wisconsin. About half of the area’s residents believe something might be out...

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Longtime announcer Ernie Johnson leaving ‘Inside the NBA’ after 37 years: ‘It’s just time’ chicagotribune.com/2026/10/2…
Longtime announcer Ernie Johnson leaving ‘Inside the NBA’ after 37 years: ‘It’s just time’

Longtime announcer Ernie Johnson leaving ‘Inside the NBA’ after 37 years: ‘It’s just time’

Basketball announcer Ernie Johnson is stepping away from “Inside the NBA” after almost 37 years behind the anchor desk.

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