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Home » Taste of Chicago

Tag: Taste of Chicago

Posted inCity Life

Taste, watch, and find your homeland

by Kerry Reid, Micco Caporale and Salem Collo-Julin July 8, 2022August 6, 2022

Looking for something to do this weekend and beyond? Here are some ideas for you. FRI 7/8 Ray Borchers’s “Coasting on None” opens tonight at T.F. Projects (1513 N. Western, Unit 104), the private showroom of local artist and odd man Tony Fitzpatrick. Borchers is known in the music community for Sharpie-rendered T-shirts of cult […]

Sam Trump performs Friday as part of the Taste of Chicago To-Go festival.
Posted inCity Life

A taste of Chicago to go

by Salem Collo-Julin and Kerry Reid July 9, 2021August 18, 2021

Upcoming events and recommendations for the next seven days

Posted inColumns & Opinion

Looking ahead

by Ben Joravsky December 21, 2020August 18, 2021

I think we can all agree the next year has got to be better.

Posted inArts & Culture

Beyond the heartbreak hotel

by Salem Collo-Julin February 12, 2020August 18, 2021

Four places where relationships sunk

Posted inMusic

The Cool Kids hit Temperance to celebrate the tenth birthday of their first EP

by J.R. Nelson and Leor Galil October 23, 2018August 18, 2021

The Cool Kids hit Temperance to celebrate the tenth birthday of their first EP, an all-star Chicago crew plays Black Sabbath and Abba at the same Halloween show, and more.

Posted inBlogs

George Clinton and more of the best things to do in Chicago this weekend

by Steve Heisler July 13, 2018August 18, 2021

Chicago Shakespeare’s Peter Pan and more goings-on 7/13-7/15

Posted inBlogs

Guess who’s coming to play at Taste of Chicago this year?

by Leor Galil May 2, 2018August 18, 2021

The Flaming Lips, Black Star, and George Clinton are among the big names at the Grant Park festival in July.

Posted inBlogs

The ACLU wants the mayor and the City Council to amend the ‘Welcoming City’ ordinance for immigrants, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd July 11, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, Governor Bruce Rauner gets a new chief of staff from a high-profile conservative group following the tense budget battle.

Posted inBlogs

Taste of Chicago, Navy Pier fireworks, and more things to do in Chicago this week

by Libby Berry July 3, 2017August 18, 2021

Ai Weiwei documentary Never Sorry, Adults Night Out at Lincoln Park Zoo, and more happenings from July 3-6

Posted inBlogs

City Council ‘reluctantly’ approves measure to ease gun range restrictions, and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd May 25, 2017August 18, 2021

Also, high water levels in Lake Michigan could shrink local beaches this summer.

Posted inMusic

The poop scoop on festival season

by Leor Galil May 24, 2017August 18, 2021

Service Sanitation porta-potties have become a ubiquitous sight at Chicago music festivals. And even if you don’t think you want to, you’re about to learn about the business that put them there.

Posted inBlogs

What happens when an activist accuses a Tribune reporter of being a police spy

by Michael Miner July 26, 2016August 18, 2021

Monica Trinidad publicly accused Peter Nickeas of colluding with cops. Here’s what happened next.

Posted inBlogs

Video shows Chicago police commander pulling activist off a barricade during Taste of Chicago protest

by Anna Waters July 12, 2016August 18, 2021

Newly obtained video from Saturday’s demonstration calls into question CPD’s account of the events that led to Ja’Mal Green being charged with aggravated battery of an officer.

Posted inBlogs

Police-brutality protests continued over the weekend and other Chicago news

by Kate Shepherd July 11, 2016August 18, 2021

Also, Rahm’s “body man” is leaving City Hall for watch and leather goods company Shinola.

Posted inBlogs

Photos of Chance the Rapper, Donnie Trumpet, and the Roots at Taste of Chicago

by Bobby Talamine and Danielle A. Scruggs July 7, 2016August 18, 2021

Chicago’s own Chance the Rapper dropped by the first day of the Taste of Chicago, joining Donnie Trumpet & the Social Experiment before the headlining set by the Roots.

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