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JB Pritzker Signs Law Banning Small Shampoo Bottles in Hotels After Swallowing One

SPRINGFIELD — Last week Gov. JB Pritzker signed a new law into effect that would ban small, single use plastic bottles from hotels in Illinois.

Once Again, Way More Air Than Water Expected At The Air And Water Show

NORTH AVE. BEACH – Chicago’s manliest festival is fast approaching, and fans are counting down the hours until they can watch the spectacular performance over beautiful Lake Michigan.

Lollapalooza Attendees Still Waiting For CTA Trains

THE LOOP — The summer fun of this year’s Lollapalooza Festival turned to sweaty frustration on Sunday as concert attendees left Grant Park to find long waits and crowded trains at CTA stations arou

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Local Mother’s Day Brunch Deal: Spend $300 to Get Your Mom the Drunkest She’s Ever Been

LINCOLN PARK – One popular brunch spot, Waffles & Wine, announced a new deal for those looking to treat their mom on the darkest day of the year for food service workers, Mother’s Day.

Robin Decides When It’s Morning

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Chicago Woman Undergoes Annual Reappreciation for City

Thanks to their brutal winters and short seasons, Chicagoans have to take any chance they have to stock up on enough vitamin D to get them through the snow time.

Thompson Center’s “Snoopy in a Blender” Statue Moved To Be With Matching Statue “Mickey Run Over By a Steamroller”

ART INSTITUTE —  Ahead of massive renovations to turn the Thompson Center into the GoogleMaxPrison Complex, the abstract outdoor statue that greets visitors to the Center is being rehoused by the A

City Expands St. Paddy’s Dye To All of Lake Michigan

“What they could never see coming is dyeing one quadrillion gallons of water a bright, resplendent green. That’s right, one quadrillion. That’s a real number, you can check.” 

Chicagoan Overseas Still Using Lake Michigan to Orient Self

According to Lopez, Serio spent much of the trip finding Lake Michigan somewhere to his west in order to locate museums, hotels, attractions and even to give a taxi instructions to find a gelato place in Rome.