Chicagoist is not immune to the nostalgia that strikes all media entities at the end of the year, as evidenced by the orgy of posts this week that looked back at significant happenings in food, booze, theatre, art, music, movies and photography. The desire to pontificate on this year's newsworthy events in Chicago is a powerful one, but we're saving ourselves for tomorrow night. Chicagoist co-editors Rachelle Bowden and Scott Smith will be guests on... more ›

Hey, have y'all been using our new "Recommend this" feature at the bottom of each post? This week we're bringing you the "Most Recommended" posts from across the -ist world, as well as recommending some of our own. more ›

The Gothamist Tech Team has been hard at work over the weekend upgrading and migrating our servers to help fight spam and ensure site stability. Thanks Neil, Jeff & Frank! While they were at it, they incorporated some features that have already been in place at Gothamist and have been popular there. Altogether these new features are called Chicagoist Labs, and they make the site even more interactive and allow you to participate in making the site even better. more ›