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1776 Restaurant in Crystal Lake was one of four suburban eateries honored with the Best of Award of Excellence in the 2024 Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards.

Cheers! 18 suburban restaurants honored with Wine Spectator awards

Eighteen suburban eateries were recently honored with 2024 Wine Spectator Restaurant Awards.

“The Stardust Grail” by Yume Kitasei.

Book Review: Yume Kitasei explores space in a heist-driven action adventure novel

Grad student Maya Hoshimoto is having a hard time settling down on Earth after a thrilling career as an art thief, stealing looted objects and returning them to their peo...

Laurie Metcalf and Micah Stock star in Steppenwolf Theatre's premiere of “Little Bear Ridge Road,” an excellent new play by Samuel D. Hunter.

Classic Steppenwolf: Exceptional ‘Little Bear Ridge Road’ reveals Chicago theater at the height of its powers

Steppenwolf Theatre representatives say there are no plans at present to transfer its premiere of “Little Bear Ridge Road” by Samuel D. Hunter to Broadway. Hopefully that will change. Hunter’s poignant examination of loneliness, inertia and failed families is that good.

Downtown Aurora will be lit up with fireworks at the Independence Day celebration on Wednesday, July 3.

Where you can see fireworks in the suburbs

As the Fourth of July approaches, communities are readying their fireworks displays. Here’s where you can see them.

Carmy (Jeremy Allen White), here in Season 2 of "The Bear," does make it out of the walk-in cooler in Season 3.

In its third season, ‘The Bear’ gets avant-garde

“The Bear,” Christopher Storer’s breakout hit about food — and grief and vocation, perfectionism and mentorship, service and trauma and ego and guilt and repair — returns for Season 3. What the episode “Tomorrow” makes clear is that “The Bear” is getting fancier.

The second annual Downtown Wheaton Craft Beer Crawl takes place Saturday, June 29.

Dining out: Dinner and a show, hot chicken, craft beer crawl and more

You can enjoy dinner and a show a couple of different ways in the suburbs this week, or you can stay home and watch a show about people making dinner. Also, don’t miss the Downtown Wheaton Craft Beer Crawl Saturday.

Third Eye Blind performs in the “Summer of Gods” tour along with Yellowcard and Arizona on Friday, June 28, at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island in Chicago.

Concerts June 28 to July 4: Third Eye Blind, Roger Daltrey, Clint Black, Lyle Lovett, The Wallflowers

Upcoming concerts include Third Eye Blind at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Roger Daltrey at Ravinia Festival, The Wallflowers at Thalia Hall, Clint Black with Lyle Lovett at Ravinia Festival and more.