Six guys are taking a goat on a 1,900-mile hike from the Cubs spring training facility in Mesa, Ariz., to Wrigley Field. Now before you roll your eyes or start talking about the Sox, they are doing their "Crack the Curse" hike to raise money to fight cancer. more ›

Now that the Cubs are in the playoffs, want to convert? Or maybe you've been a Cubs fan but need to brush up on your trivia skills? Tonight, authors Glenn Stout, of the Best American Sports series, and Richard A. Johnson, the curator of the New England Sports Museum, present their latest collaboration, The Cubs: The Complete Story of Chicago Cubs Baseball, at Harold Washington Library. The Cubs details Cubs history covering such items as... more ›

As recently as 24 months ago, there were three baseball franchises whose fans blamed decades of World Series futility on curses. The Red Sox fans blamed the "curse of the Bambino," cast upon their franchise when the team's owner sold Babe Ruth to the Yankees in order to finance a Broadway production. Since the Wilson administration, White Sox fans blamed their lack of a title on the "Black Sox" scandal, in which members of the 1919 team were accused of throwing the World Series. And the Cubs had their "Billy Goat" curse, cast upon the team after Vasili "Billy Goat" Sianis and his actual goat were denied admission to Wrigley Field for Game 4 of the 1945 World Series. more ›

If you really think about it, most of the aldermen in Chicago don't do much. They'll make a stink for ten hours in a City Council meeting about how much they hate this or that, or how another street should be named after the guy who founded the Billy Goat Tavern, but in the end, it adds up to them raking in a city salary for being incredibly long-winded. The reason why people care (or, at least, should care) about who they have as an alderman is because they have the power to give jobs to people in their wards. The people who do these jobs, in turn, affect the voters' daily lives, etc. more ›

Chicagoist's foodies are rarely surprised when they hear about restaurant expansion, especially when that restaurant is a popular brand with proven success. more ›

Saturday was a beautiful day and Chicagoist had a few friends in from out of town so we all headed down to Grant Park for Taste of Chicago, which claims to be the world's largest food and free music festival. Wow, what a bunch of gluttons we were!!! Tickets were $7 for 11 tickets and the three of us each bought $21 worth of tickets. .. what's that? 99 tickets? At each of the festival's 70 restaurant booths there were several food items to choose from that ranged in price from 2 - 9 tickets. Pooling our tickets together and sharing everything we bought we were able to consume all of the following: more ›