If you're a member of an out-of-state wine club or shop online from an out-of-state wine retailer, you have a few days left to place an order. So make it count. HB 429 and SB 123, signed into law last fall by Governor Sound Byte, goes into effect Sunday (for previous Chicagoist coverage on HB 429, here is a link to the respective posts). The legislation allows for customers to buy wine directly from a......

Don't those bottles look pretty? We've been in contact with Andrew Mason, brewer at Flossmoor Station Restaurant & Brewery has been keeping us abreast of some of the things that he brewmaster Matt Van Wyk has been working on since the start of the year. Now we can finally tell the big news: the award-winning brewpub is set to enter the bottled beer market. On April 5th, 75 years after the repeal of Prohibition,......