Tuesday is National Pizza Pie Day. That's separate from National Pizza Week which happened last month, or the Great American Pizza Bake next week, or National Cheese Pizza Day (September 5), or National Pizza Festival Month in October, or National Sausage Pizza Day (October 11), or National Pizza with Everything Except Anchovies Day (November 12). We point this out to emphasize the inanity of national "food holidays" and to ask for the idiots who created each of these individual days to incorporate these all under one National Pizza Pie Day. But we digress. more ›

While John McCain spent Super Bowl Sunday in Massachusetts, Mitt Romney made his pitch to the most reliably conservative county in Illinois. At a packed rally of several hundred people at the College of DuPage yesterday, he tried to convince voters here that he is the true conservative standard bearer. Romney vowed that as president he would "stand up for the principles of the Republican Party and to live in the house that Ronald Reagan built." more ›

We are now just days away from that day which rivals Thanksgiving as few can in the annals of American gluttony: Super Bowl Sunday. Whether we're parked on a couch in front of our friend's new 60 inch plasma TV or watching the game at a sports bar that's stumbling distance from home, the food and drink often take precedence over the game itself - especially when our Bears aren't in it this year. more ›

Last year a 10-year-old kid fell 30 feet to the ground when boarding a CTA train. Guess who's getting sued now? The Tokyo Stock Exchange and the Chicago Mercantile Exchange: BFF? This cold weather does more than just chafe your hands, it also breaks water mains and shuts down major intersections. Just in time for Super Bowl Sunday: Binge eating is a big-time health problem in the US. Forget about anorexia or bulimia, binge... more ›

Super Bowl Sunday will be a bittersweet day for Chicago actors who happen to be Chicago Bears fans … or Bears fans that happen to be in a show. They’ve been waiting over two decades for the Bears to return to The Big Game but likely have been honing their craft even longer. That conflict was too much for the Neo-Futurists, who have cancelled Sunday night’s performance of perennial favorite Too Much Light Makes the... more ›

We always like it when someone helps us take something that is already easy, and make it easier. Hello, GrubHub, nice to meet you, and thanks for allowing us to order in without even picking up the delivery menu. The site allows you to enter your address and find all the area restaurants who will deliver to you and then, in many cases, place an order through the site. more ›

We can't seem to get the Bears off our brains. One would think the only thing Chicago does, especially on the weekends, is sit around and wait for our teams to win championships ... and we pay for it on Monday, when work rears its ugly head. That explains why one west suburban employer is throwing in the towel and giving his staff the day off after Super Bowl Sunday. Research firm Challenger, Gray &... more ›

Our resident jaunter had to up and leave town suddenly this weekend, but we will try our best to fill you in on happenings for today. Despite the January blahs, there's quite a bit of stuff going on. Fox & Obel, they of upscale food market fame, are holding a free chocolate tasting from 1-5 p.m. The chocolate in question is Schokinag, of which drinking chocolate will also be available (mm!). Strap on the feedbag... more ›

With the Bears heading to Miami, some serious planning needs to commence starting, oh, right about now. Chicagoist is already getting stressed out. Where should we watch the game? Which friends should we invite over? And what should we eat? more ›

Superbowl Sunday may be the day for the most prolific consumption the amazing culinary spectacle of dishes that is Chili. Thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands, of gallons of the spicy meat stew are prepared and devoured during the game as the proud cultivators of this American epicurean delight bask in the compliments of a job well done, most of which is easily deserved, because, its hard to screw up chili…isn’t it? more ›