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Dining out: Eat, drink to support breast cancer charities, Big City Burger collab and new fall menus

By Rick West
Oct 07, 2025 4:55 pm - There are plenty of opportunities in the suburbs to support breast cancer charities while enjoying food and drink in October. We’ve also got some new fall menu offerings, a burger collab with chef Bill Kim at The Graceful Ordinary and more.
No, Taylor Swift did not turn down the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show

By MARIA SHERMAN
Oct 07, 2025 1:24 pm - Taylor Swift says she did not turn down the 2026 Super Bowl halftime show, which will be headlined by Bad Bunny.
‘It’s going to dress it up’: Zesty mural proposed for Cinergy Cinemas building in Wheeling

By Russell Lissau
Oct 07, 2025 12:15 pm - Wheeling officials and Cinergy Cinemas are teaming up to add some spice — and more than a little color — to the Wheeling Town Center complex.
Bob Ross paintings to be auctioned to support public TV stations after federal funding cuts

Oct 07, 2025 9:45 am - Thirty paintings created by the bushy-haired, soft-spoken Bob Ross will soon be up for auction to defray the costs of programming for small and rural public television stations suffering under cuts in federal funding.
Concerts Oct. 10-16: Lee DeWyze, Chance the Rapper, Elvis Costello and more

By Luke Zurawski
Oct 07, 2025 8:38 am - Upcoming concerts this week include Lee DeWyze at Hey Nonny, Chance The Rapper at Huntington Bank Pavilion at Northerly Island, Elvis Costello and The Imposters at the Chicago Theatre and more.
This writer visited 21 graveyards — and dug up some deep truths

By Alma Katsu
Oct 07, 2025 7:08 am - I bet I know what you’re thinking: Essays about cemeteries? It would be a mistake, however, to write off Mariana Enriquez’s “Somebody Is Walking on Your Grave.”
A distinctive Irish novelist returns with ‘The City Changes Its Face’

By Abhrajyoti Chakraborty
Oct 07, 2025 6:58 am - Early in “The City Changes Its Face,” Eimear McBride’s messier follow-up to “The Lesser Bohemians,” we learn that Eily and Stephen have been living together for more than a year. Stephen has reconnected with his daughter and finished writing and directing an autobiographical film, based on his traumatic 20s. Eily, who is supposed to be in her third year of drama school, is skipping all her classes. Why?
Elk Grove artists to hold juried art show Oct. 17-19 at library

Submitted by Jan Elbert
Oct 06, 2025 5:17 pm - The Artists’ Association of Elk Grove Village will hold its 42nd juried art show Oct. 17–19 at the Elk Grove Village Library.
Things to do Oct. 10-16: Glass Pumpkin Patch, St. Charles Scarecrow Fest, Lumenaura and more

By Luke Zurawski
Oct 06, 2025 4:01 pm - Mark your calendar for Glass Pumpkin Patch at The Morton Arboretum, St. Charles Scarecrow Fest, Lumenaura in Aurora, “Harry Potter: A Forbidden Forest Experience” in Ingleside, Fall Festival at Danada, Boo at the Zoo at Brookfield Zoo Chicago and more.
Best bets: MAC welcomes Capitol Fools comedy and ESO opens its season

By Barbara Vitello
Oct 06, 2025 3:59 pm - The Capitol Fools send up politicians and politics at the McAninch Arts Center, the Elgin Symphony Orchestra opens its 76th season, and Berwyn native Sondra Radvanovsky plays the scorned sorceress in Lyric Opera of Chicago’s season-opening production of “Medea.”

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