Tim Bannon

Gelato The perfect scoop: Coconut Where you can find it: Cafe Descartes, 111 E. Wacker Drive; 312-565-2557 Value: $2.99 for a single, hefty scoop. Why we love it: The dozen...

Friday is the first of the Sox-Cubs games this season, symbolizing the greater North Side vs. South Side rivalry. But lost in the hype devoted to that divide are other...

Winners SNOWBOARD CROSS: Exciting new Olympic sport, way hotter than half-pipe -- and a much better choice than ski orienteering or ski mountaineering, both passed over for these Games. LANGUAGE:...

Winners: Joey Cheek: U.S. speed skater vows to donate his $25,000 gold-medal bonus to charity. Latvia: Not only has the nation won a bronze, but its hockey team pulls a...

1. THE LAKEFRONT: Mornings at the zoo I never run fast and I seldom run far, but my early morning runs take me through an astounding variety of landscapes. I...

"Check Please!" 8 p.m., Friday, WTTW-Ch. 11: It's a rerun, but it's worth it because Alpana Singh and her guests revisit Oak Park's tiny but terrific Cafe Le Coq. Also...

ACTUALLY, WE WERE SEEKING TO PROVIDE THE SENSORY EQUIVALENT OF ONE OF OUR JAMS ... While crossing the Kinzie Street Bridge in August, the Dave Matthews Band's bus allegedly dumped...

Bob Mankoff has a good job. As cartoon editor of The New Yorker, he studies approximately 1,000 drawings with captions each week, narrows it down to the best 30 to...

This weekend, the Chicago Sun-Times workers will move out of the 47-year-old building that soon will be demolished to make way for Donald Trump's new tower. On Monday, the newspaper...

Friday is Opening Day on the South Side and Monday is Opening Day on the North Side, and to mark the occasions, Tempo returns with its annual Sox-Cubs Trivia Quiz....