Monica Eng at the Trib must be helping Chicago win its title of "most caffeinated" city; she tried 32 different coffees for a story in today's paper about which coffees taste the best. Coming out on top are cups of coffee from Metropolis, Intelligentsia, Coffee Beanery Ltd., Whole Foods, Cafe Colao, Illy, Peet's Coffee (our personal favorite), and Julius Meinl. She also recommends picking up the banana cream tart at Fox & Obel to... more ›

Because Chicagoist is tired this morning, and because despite what some people think, we can't get up every single morning and just magically bring the funny, we're going to piggyback off this Sun-Times piece about Chicago's "scariest" places so we can whore for comments. We'll give this the old college try and make a brief stab at trying to disguise it as media criticism anyway, because the piece is really no less lazy than what... more ›

Did anybody bother to ask Roy Williams what the payoff would be if the Lions didn't live up to his guarantee? Because Chicagoist has learned that sometimes, when a guarantee is hyped, that the payout ain't all that great. When our bicycle wasn't ready in an hour? A kickstand. When our suit alteration wasn't right? A free pair of dress socks. Maybe a hanky would be an appropriate payout, given that the Lions were killed... more ›

A new report says that the Chicago Park District could raise a whole lot of cash by further developing harbors for boat slips, especially by Navy Pier and Loyola University. Right now there are about 5,000 100-boat slips downtown but they're about 98% full. The report estimates that over the next 20 years we're going to have about 3,000 more boats and nowhere to put them. The Park District expects that it'll clear about $10... more ›

Because Chicagoist takes its job of repeating what is already printed in the newspapers very seriously, we thought it was important to mention last Friday's big news of six new people indicted in the Hired Truck Scandal. The charges are more of the same, shaking down trucking company owners for bribes. Probably the most interesting news is that one, there are so many people people charged -- twenty-three -- and two, that Don Tomczak, the... more ›

Lots of news at The Field Museum these days! From the selling of Indian art, to the preservation of Iraqi artifacts, to a new Incas exhibit, to a party: we've got it all summarized here. more ›