Luis Maldonado bought Lupita’s Cucina, a Mexican eatery at 40W222 LaFox Road, Campton Hills, last month, and changed it up, name and all. The new name is Ikal Y Sanse, which sounds complicated, but it isn’t. Ikal is Mayan, Y is Spanish and Sanse is Aztec. “It means unique spirit,” Maldonado said.
Angus MacLachlan’s “A Little Prayer” made its first appearance at the Sundance Film Festival in 2023, and those of us who cherished this small-scale, nearly perfect drama of small-town American lives were worried it might never see the light of day again. Yet here it is at last, and all I can say is: Go.
A much-anticipated, multimillion-dollar deal to turn a historic, city-owned building in downtown Des Plaines into a restaurant should get the city council’s final approval Tuesday.
Having already seen Septemberfest compromised twice by the pandemic at the beginning of the decade, Schaumburg officials are determined it won’t be by the more deliberate decision to replace the village hall on the same municipal grounds.
Upcoming concerts this week include My Chemical Romance, The Lumineers, System of A Down and Avenged Sevenfold, Little River Band, Winger, Finn Wolfhard with The Slaps, The Black Keys and more.
Cooper’s Hawk has opened its second suburban location of Piccolo Buco, Portillo’s has some new secret menu items, and several suburban restaurants are extending weekend brunch to Monday for Labor Day.
Darren Aronofsky’s latest movie, “Caught Stealing,” is easily the director’s most affectionate portrait of New York. This terrific caper, starring Austin Butler as a Lower East Side man inadvertently drawn into a nightmarish crime world, is a period movie set in 1998.