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Perch fishing around Chicago leads this sprawling raw-file Midwest Fishing Report, but there are other things such as ice fishing up north, as well as lake trout, brown trout and whitefish on southern Lake Michigan.

Hotel kitchens have long been the home of culinary innovations. Here are a few of the dishes and ideas that were so good guests couldn’t resist them. Little wonder they’ve gone global

CHICAGO — When motorists travel along Robert Parker Coffin Road in north suburban Long Grove, they become subjects in a fascinating psychological test.

With new episodes of the locally made comedy set to arrive Dec. 8 on HBO Max, co-creator Bashir Salahuddin says, “We’re really pushing the boundaries in the writer’s room this season.”

Welcome to the Tuesday, November 29, Brew. 

José Abreu surely knew he was gone on the final day of the 2022 season when he opted to sit and watch the last game of his Chicago White Sox career from the dugout.

The group had been in takeover talks with a Chicago-based private equity firm

Imagine your doctor tells you that you have a serious wasting condition. Your physician prescribes a powerful kind of therapy that has serious side effects similar to chemotherapy’s. You ask what evidence there is of the therapy’s benefits. Your physician cheerfully says there’s none. She is prescribing the therapy because…