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Enjoy the NCAA basketball tournament with a Final Fourange cocktail at Old Town Pour House in Oak Brook and Naperville or City Works Eatery & Pour House in Vernon Hills and Schaumburg.

Dining out: March Madness, Rick Bayless Day and more

There’s March Madness in the air next week when suburban bars and restaurants will be showing the NCAA basketball games while offering dining and drinks specials. Also, Chicago fetes celebrity chef Rick Bayless, a local nano brewery celebrates its first year and more.

Visitors to Brookfield Zoo Chicago can take a spin on a huge new Ferris wheel installed for the zoo’s 90th anniversary celebration.

Ferris wheel opens, koalas coming to Brookfield Zoo Chicago

One of the first things you might notice when you arrive to the south side of Brookfield Zoo Chicago is the sheer size of a new Ferris wheel. But it’s the view from the t...

Mary Todd Lincoln (Lily Taylor) and President Abraham Lincoln (Hamish Linklater) attend the theater in "Manhunt" on Apple TV+.

‘Manhunt,’ about hunt for John Wilkes Booth, may make you wish you paid attention in history class

A new series transforms the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln into a true crime thriller that goes deeper into the story than most textbooks. “Manhunt," debuting Friday on Apple TV+, dramatizes the hunt for Booth and the trial that followed.

Palatine native and Fremd High School graduate Alisha Elenz is a “cheftestant” on the upcoming season of Bravo’s “Top Chef.” Season 21 premieres Wednesday, March 20.

From Palatine to ‘Top Chef’: How Fremd graduate ended up on new season of Bravo show

A two-time James Beard award-nominated chef with suburban roots will compete on Bravo’s “Top Chef” this season, and she says the intensity portrayed on the competition cooking show is very real.

The Chicago Boat Show — a mainstay within the city limits for 92 years — was at McCormick Place for the last time in January, ahead of a planned move to Rosemont next year.

Chicago Boat Show to drop anchor in Rosemont after 92 years in the city

The Chicago Boat Show — the Midwest recreational boating industry’s marquee wintertime event held annually within the city of Chicago for 92 years — will set sail from it...

Olivia Munn, shown at the Governors Awards on Jan. 9, in Los Angeles, urged people to work with their doctors and use a breast cancer risk calculator when revealing her breast cancer diagnosis and double mastectomy. The calculator is a questionnaire on the National Cancer Institute’s website designed for health care providers to use with patients. The calculator may underestimate your risk, so it’s important to go over the questionnaire with your doctor.

What is the breast cancer risk calculator recommended by Olivia Munn?

An online breast cancer risk calculator received a dramatic increase in visits after Olivia Munn this week revealed her breast cancer diagnosis after using the calculator with her doctor. But is the calculator recommended for everyone?

Jennifer Morrison, ("This is Us," "Once Upon a Time") who grew up in Arlington Heights, stars in Goodman Theatre's premiere of "The Penelopiad."

Goodman’s excellent ‘Penelopiad’ examines Homer’s ‘Odyssey’ from the female perspective

Goodman Theatre’s Chicago premiere of “The Penelopiad,” starring TV veteran Jennifer Morrison, commences with a resounding thwack. It is the first of several startling moments in artistic director Susan V. Booth’s canny, confident, passionately acted production.