Behind every good woman is her good name. You can visit these places most days of the week, but on Fridays you get the added benefit of live music.
2:30 p.m.: The Jane Addams Hull-House Museum (800 S. Halsted St.; 312-413-5353) is a two-building remnant of the original 13-building Hull House settlement founded by social welfare pioneers Jane Addams and Ellen Gates Starr in 1889. Although the museum does not offer an enormous visual study, there is a wealth of information about settlement house life and the historical figures (Frank Lloyd Wright, Louis Sullivan, Ida B. Wells) who supported and visited Hull House.
Cost: Free; donations accepted.
6 p.m.: The sign outside Edna’s Soul Food Restaurant (3175 W. Madison St.; 773-638-7079) says: “We claim that Edna’s has the best biscuits on earth.” So, of course, we had to try the biscuits. It would be difficult to survey everywhere on earth, but after tasting the fluffy, butter-laden biscuits–more like round mounds of cake–it is hard to dispute the proclamation. Edna has been serving them for nearly 40 years with breakfast, lunch or dinner.
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Fried chicken and collard greens for two: $21.08.
9 p.m.: If you blink, you’ll miss Cafe Penelope (230 S. Ashland Ave.; 312-243-3600), a quaint cafe nestled in the storefront of a warehouse building in the industrial/residential Union Hall Row near the United Center. On Fridays, it turns un-cafe like with down-home blues performed by local favorites such as the Pat Smillie Band. There is a small bar and kitchen, but no obligatory pressure from the staff to buy anything if you just want to sit and listen to the band. Drinks for two: $9.75; no cover.
GRAND TOTAL: $31.83