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The Chicago Fire may have found a spark in Cuauhtemoc Blanco that Chicagoist hopes helps the club ignite a run to the playoffs. The Mexican star made his debut with the Fire on Sunday when the team played an international friendly with Celtic FC of the Scottish Premier League. Blanco marked his debut with a beautiful goal in the 30th minute and continued to entertain the crowd with cheeky back heel passes and deft touches...

Residents of the South Loop/Motor Row area are quickly getting more dining options, and just in time, as home buyers and renters flock to the "hottest" neighborhood in the city. There's Jerry Kleiner's long focus on developing a restaurant district along South Wabash (with Opera, Gioco, Room 21); the Mainstay Hospitality holdings all do great business; Cuatro consistently draws diners from all over the area; Café Bionda proved so successful that owner/chef Joe Farina's opened...

Toyota Park will host two international sporting events this summer. The first on Sunday, July 22 when the Chicago Fire host Scottish Premier League side Celtic FC. Celtic FC had a remarkable season last year where they went unbeaten in 31 of 34 games, leading them to a repeat as champions in the Scottish Premier League. The club has won five of the last seven championships and has racked up 41 domestic titles in their...

It was a great atmosphere in Chicago this weekend for soccer fans. The Chicago Fire won an international friendly over MKS Cracovia on Friday night at Toyota Park. Saturday night, Chicagoist visited the Globe Pub where we found United States National Team supporters who had traveled from both coasts for the Gold Cup final. They joined together singing soccer songs while taking in Major League Soccer action via satellite feed. The U.S. fans found themselves...

The United States and Mexico advanced out of the semi-finals of the CONCACAF Gold Cup Thursday night. The United States started off the night defeating our neighbors to the north, Canada, 2-1. The United States received goals from Frankie Hejduk in the 39th minute and a penalty kick goal by Landon Donovan in the 45th minute that was awarded when DaMarcus Beasley was taken down inside the Canadian box. In the waning minutes of the...

When we ran our first Intonation Fest giveaway a few weeks ago, we received more entries for it than any other giveaway we’ve ever run on this site. So when the organizers tossed another set of tickets at us, we decided to up the stakes a little and make you get a little literary. We asked you to send in a brief essay that detailed why you should receive the passes and no one else....

We like highlights, we like getting them, doing them and giving them. There’s a ton of cool stuff going on this week, check out the quick highlights, and let us know which author is going to get your attention. First off, it’s the closing night party for the Literary Gangs. They’ll finish up with a finale including Andy Ross and Jonathan Messinger. You can see the Literary Gangs on Tues., May 16th, 6:30PM, at the...

This recipe was adopted from the first season of Rick Bayless’ PBS cooking/Mexican culture show Mexico: One Plate at a Time. We saw this episode and had to try this recipe it was everything we had been hoping for in make at home Mexican cuisine; authentic, modestly complicated, but not restrictively so, and decadent (and we do love decadent). The decadent part comes in the form of the “suiza”; meaning Swiss style, or in the...

More than 50 customers of a US Bank branch in Highwood found a huge lump of coal in their stockings this week. They reported that money is missing from their accounts, some losing up to $40,000. One man told the Tribune that the bank had no records of his accounts, and others said that their CDs had fake account numbers. The FBI and US Bank are investigating. Most of the victims are Mexican immigrants who...