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Some chef news for you: Monday both Chicago Mag's Dish and TOC broke the news that Avenues' Graham Elliot Bowles will be leaving the AAA five-diamond award winning restaurant in April to open a new restaurant in the former Harvest on Huron space (217 W. Huron).

For further proof that Chicago has become ground zero for culinary innovation, AAA announced their 2007 Five Diamond-rated restaurants last week. Alinea and Avenues in the Peninsula Hotel joined Charlie Trotter's, Arun's, Tru, Everest, and the Four Seasons Hotel's Seasons Restaurant to bring our toddlin' town's number to an astounding seven. That's the highest number of Five Diamond-rated restaurants in the country for a single city. There was no mention of our favorite place to...

We've been saying that Dave Matthews Band is a bunch of shit-soaking garbage for a long time, and now we might have proof. Sunday afternoon, about 80 people aboard Chicago's Little Lady on the river were soaked in a "'brownish-yellow'" substance that rained down from the bridge above, apparently after a bus or two drove across. (The Sun-Times calls the boat the First Lady, but the details are hardly the important element here.) More than...

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