Oct. 24 is Food Day. Enter to win a huge gift basket full of goodies and join Stop Foodborne Illness in front of the Hancock Building to win fabulous prizes. more ›

Pop quiz! Which is better: a Chicken McNugget or a small morsel of chicken meat that has been battered and fried to look like, smell like and taste like a Chicken McNugget, a piece of chicken lacking only the telltale McDonalds' wrapping? If you answered the McNugget, you aren't alone; A recent study of preschoolers in which the children sampled identical McDonald's foods in name-brand and unmarked wrappers found that the unmarked food always lost. Even when it was apples, carrots or milk they still picked the McDonald's wrapped snack. more ›

Seattlest saw a house party get senselessly attacked with a shotgun and end in seven dead. A local senator is debated and their version of the big dig is investigated. To truly get to the bottom of it they interview the writer Jonathan Raban. Bostonist has its first birthday party and investigates how to attach more gambling dollars to the Red Sox. Benjamin Franklin is celebrated and Johnny Damon is not. Image by Ethan Bagley... more ›

It appears that McDonald's is trying to get back into the coffee game. We're not sure why they are trying so hard, but after they were raked over the coals by Morgan Spurlock, it's seemed to us that they've been doing nothing but fix, manage and damage control ever since. The salad brigade. The dollar menu. The fry scandal. Now it's coffee. The business story in the Trib says that McDonald's is going to be... more ›

Yesterday in Park Forest 43 sixth-graders and four kingergarteners were sickened by their school’s food. more ›

Last night Chicagoist was on the phone with a producer of an upcoming short film festival and she was lamenting how difficult it is to mount a new festival since there’s already so many. Gee, we hadn’t noticed. more ›