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“First Love” by Lilly Dancyger.

Book review: Memoirist Lilly Dancyger’s penetrating essays explore the power of female friendships

Who means more to you — your friends or your lovers? In a vivid, thoughtful and nuanced collection of essays, Lilly Dancyger explores the powerful role that female friend...

An exhibit of the Chicago Archaeopteryx, the earliest known bird, opens to the public at the Field Museum Tuesday.

Dino-might: Field Museum’s Archaeopteryx may be the ‘most important fossil ever’

The Field Museum’s iconic T. rex, Sue, may be a little jealous. There’s a new exhibit in town, Archaeopteryx, and it’s “perhaps the most important fossil ever discovered,...

Jarosch Bakery in Elk Grove Village is merging with a Chicago bakery in a move its owners say will preserve the family-owned operation for generations to come.

Jarosch Bakery merging in a move owners say will preserve business for generations

Jarosch Bakery, a Northwest suburban institution for lovers of coffee cake, butter cookies and other sweets for more than six decades, is merging with a Chicago bakery in a move its owners say will preserve its future for generations to come.

The Grayslake Dog n Suds drive-in is closed indefinitely after a fire broke out the morning of April 20, but the management team has promised to reopen.

Out of the flames: Grayslake Dog n Suds works toward reopening after fire

Efforts are underway to get the Grayslake Dog n Suds drive-in restaurant back up and running after a fire in the early morning of April 20 disrupted operation. In a Face...

Jeremy Allen White, left, and Harris Dickinson star in “The Iron Claw.”

What to stream this week: Zac Efron, Indigo Girls, ‘Dark Matter,’ Brooke Shields and Anne Hathaway

Zac Efron and Jeremy Allen White starring in the family wrestling dynasty in “The Iron Claw” and Brooke Shields playing the unwitting title role in the romantic comedy “Mother of the Bride” on Netflix are some of the new television, movies, music and games headed to streaming this week.

Lilacia Park bursts with color in Lombard, the “Lilac Village.”

‘A lot of purple’: May means Lilac Time in Lombard

The history of how Lombard became a town of lilac lovers is as colorful as the park grounds during Lilac Time, a nearly monthlong celebration starting Saturday.

Tony and Emmy Award-winner Jason Alexander makes his Chicago stage debut in Chicago Shakespeare Theater's “Judgment Day.”

Redemption tale: Jason Alexander stars in Chicago Shakes’ premiere of ‘Judgment Day’

Chicago Shakespeare Theater’s “Judgment Day” has a not-so-secret weapon, and his name is Jason Alexander.