Today in restaurant news: The new restaurant from Top Chef Dale Levitski opens today for lunch, the Chicago Honey Co-Op finds a new home and Billy Dec goes BBQ. more ›

While the Chicago Honey Co-Op searches for new digs, it will still run its twice-yearly beekeeping classes, the first of which kicks off tomorrow. more ›

The organization has to move their apiary to new land and they need to raise the money by February. more ›

Mayor Daley apparently loved handing out little jars of honey from the City's rooftop hives. But bees have even more clout these days as hipsters set up hives all over town. more ›

Lots of festivals, tastings and food-related events this week, people. more ›

Even before Chicagoland got its first 70 degree day of the year, area beekeepers were preparing for spring. Beehives—like the ones on the roofs of City Hall and the Chicago Cultural Center, in Garfield Park Conservatory, and the 100-plus hives in a North Lawndale co-op community— have already been checked to make sure the bees have survived the winter and have enough food to last them until the first dandelions, willows, and soft maples bloom. Keepers have cleaned and medicated the hives as necessary and might have ordered a few more thousand bees or a new queen, which are shipped through the U.S. Postal Service. more ›