Anticipation always accompanies opening weekend at Six Flags Great America in Gurnee. But the start of a new season Saturday comes with extra zip.
New U.S Mint Director Paul Hollis spoke Thursday at a coin convention about new coin designs celebrating the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence in July.
For nearly 15 years, BG Hospitality Group has brought people together around plates of wood-fired pizza and Italian favorites at Gia Mia, Livia Italian Eatery and Ella’s Italian Pub. Their latest restaurant, fire + wine in St. Charles, brings the company full circle, as their first restaurant was fire + wine’s first location in downtown Glen Ellyn.
The wait is over: Endless shrimp is back at Red Lobster for a limited time. Also, Hometown Coffee and Juice is coming to Hinsdale, and seven suburban restaurants are supporting the Sip and Share for Foster Care initiative.
Northlight Theatre bids farewell to its longtime Skokie home with a hugely entertaining revival of Paul Slade Smith’s screwball comedy “The Angel Next Door.”
Perhaps the saddest thing about “I Swear,” the moving if also occasionally cloying film about Tourette’s activist John Davidson, is that a movie aimed at forging understanding ended up unwittingly causing division and horror — at a ceremony where it was being celebrated.
As WHCM celebrates 25 years on the FM airwaves, Harper College’s student radio station continues to receive major awards from national organizations.