Over 510 guests gathered at Shoreacres in Lake Bluff for the Founders’ Board's 66th Annual Dinner on the Bluff and Pro Am Golf Championship, raising $2.4 million for Lurie Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders.
Ravinia's Chance the Rapper and Hugh Jackman, the Chicago Air and Water Show, Taste of Greektown, and the Chicago Black Dance Legacy Project’s one-night return to the Harris Theater — Philip Vidal's guide to Chicago in August.
Beastly heat, a market matriarch with three pages of house rules, bronze mythological figures by a former Disney modeler, and flower-shaped bubble machines over the ramparts — Katherine Harvey's summer in Antibes.
A sunny afternoon inside Chicago's "landscape under glass" — jungle rooms, desert cacti, and the Artists Flower Show at one of America's largest conservatories.
The 2026 Illinois State Fair returns to Springfield August 13–23 — Adrian’s guide to fair food, rides, and everything else the Land of Lincoln has to offer.
Beauty begins within the soul. Within every one is an inner light. This light cannot easily be extinguished…
Boys & Girls Club Summer Ball, Art in the Sky Room at the Obama Presidential Center, Don’t Lose That Joy, Biba’s Favorite Things: Gloria Groom, My Silk Roads: Vienna, Heritage Auction: Lincoln’s Office, Soup on the Verge of Heatstroke, and Letter from Paris (Part 3).
Jersey Shore Food Memories, 250 Years of Liberty at the Guild, Banff, The John Nichols Collection, Francee Harrington, A Blakely Fourth, TWA Flight 800, Letter from Paris (Part 2), and a poem for Martha Graham.
Making History Awards, Biba’s Favorite Things, What to Know Before “The Odyssey,” Rocky Mountaineer, Kintsugi, The History of Kiddieland, Letter from Paris, and more.
Chicago’s Chinatown, Dining Under a Tiepolo Sky, Spark! Raises $5 Million, Calypso and the Cabana Club, Global Purr-spective: Cats Around the World, Man Overboard, The Reading Room, and more.