After years of fits and starts, rumors and innuendo, Eater Chicago launched today with Foodie the App partner Ari Bendersky at the helm. more ›

Here's a deal for iPhone users who installed the foodie app. If you use foodie to make a reservation at mk this evening for their four-course tasting menu (a $45 value), you'll receive a free $15 gift card to DMK Burger Bar. As a bonus, anyone who makes a reservation using foodie through January 26 will become eligible for a pass to Stephanie Izard's final Wandering Goat dinner January 27. the more reservations you make through foodie, the more entries you have toward winning the dinner. more ›

Ari Bendersky -- former editor of UR Chicago and current ChuffPo contributor (though we won't hold that against him) -- wants to be the Caretaker of the Islands of the Great Barrier Reef. In full disclosure we should inform you that we have worked with Ari in the past and believe that if anyone should get the job ... well, if ANYONE should get the job it should be us! But we didn't apply, so we're backing him. more ›

Former UR Chicago editor Ari Bendersky has been named editor of the long-awaited Eater Chicago. Eater and its real estate-focused companion, Curbed, are set to launch October 15. (Disclosure: I was also interviewed as a candidate for the Eater Chicago gig.) [TOC, via Menupages Chicago] more ›