Category: Reviews

Order Up! Graze Provisions sets the Internet ablaze  The Growler

Updated September 13, 2019. Order Up! is the Growler’s ongoing biweekly account of noteworthy Minnesota restaurant openings, closings, and future openings.

Review: Alinea’s Unironic, Ritzy Supper Club  Chicagomag.com

St. Clair Supper Club, the group’s reimagining of a classic Midwestern staple, is an expensive but delicious homage.

That muffled voice on the other side of the McDonald’s drive-thru could be replaced by a robot  Herald & Review

CHICAGO — McDonald’s on Tuesday announced plans to acquire a voice technology company to help speed up ordering at the drive-thru, the latest in a series …

LeBron James’ “Taco Tuesday” Trademark Filing Being Protested By Restaurant  HotNewHipHop

Lebron tried to trademark ‘Taco Tuesday’ but a Mexican restaurant is protesting it. LeBron James wears many hats — he’s one of the most skilled basketball p…

Herald & Review Almanac | Life & People | herald-review.com  Herald & Review

Today’s Highlight in History: On Sept. 8, 1892, an early version of “The Pledge of Allegiance,” written by Francis Bellamy, appeared in “The Youth’s Companion.

Roebuck, the pizzeria/brewpub from DryHop’s owners, opens in Lakeview  Eater Chicago

Yet another Chicago beer maker enters the fray today as Roebuck Pizza opens in Lakeview from the owners of DryHop Brewers. Roebuck, which serves …

When Hillary Clinton Was a Teenage Republican  Chicagomag.com

As the presidential election once more inches to the top of the news cycle, many Democrats are looking back to the last contender, Hillary Rodham Clinton, …

Da story behind Da Bears — and how the sausage-eating, Mike Ditka-obsessed, Chicago-aggrandizing Super Fans are still part of Chicago sports today  Herald & Review

CHICAGO — Brett Favre is late. The Hall of Fame quarterback is running behind after his visit with the Chiefs in Kansas City, Mo., so Robert Smigel and George …

First look: The Hoxton, Southwark makes a play for London’s coolest hotel south of the river  Evening Standard

The Hoxton hotel group has enjoyed mass expansion over the past few years. After opening its first two outposts in London in Shoreditch (2006) and Holborn …

‘It Chapter Two’ a good scare, but not as good as the first one  Chicago Sun-Times

Now that he’s terrorizing the grown-up adults of the Losers’ Club, the twisted clown Pennywise seems a little less frightening.

The Education of Janice Jackson  Chicagomag.com

The high-profile chief of Chicago Public Schools inherited a system in crisis. Now she’s learning just how hard it is to fix it.

Legal sports wagering begins in Indiana | Gambling | nwitimes.com  nwitimes.com

EAST CHICAGO — Sports wagering in Indiana? You can bet on it.

CAPITOL RECAP: Final tally: 591 bills signed, 8 vetoed by governor  Herald & Review

SPRINGFIELD – Democratic Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Tuesday, Aug. 27, signed the final three bills of the 599 sent to him by the Illinois General Assembly during the …

Dixon, 64, taught school, baked delicious pizzas  The Beverly Review

With over a decade of experience in working at pizzerias, as well as career in teaching, Jeanette Dixon had the perfect personality to open her own pizza parlor.

Dixon, 64, taught school, baked delicious pizzas | Top Story  The Beverly Review

With over a decade of experience in working at pizzerias, as well as career in teaching, Jeanette Dixon had the perfect personality to open her own pizza parlor.