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Chicago Bakeries Knew Apple Pie Needed More Pieces

Chicago-style apple slices take everything comforting about apple pie and reshape it into soft, bakery-sized bars made for sharing. Tender apples flavored with cinnamon and nutmeg sit between pastry layers, creating fruit-filled squares with more convenient portions than a traditional round pie. Every piece offers soft apple filling, warm spice, and enough pastry to keep the dessert sturdy in one hand. The rectangular format also means more people receive those prized edge pieces where the crust becomes especially golden. It is a nostalgic Midwest bakery treat that feels familiar even to anyone who never stood before a Chicago display case. Simple ingredients and an old-fashioned presentation give these bars the character of something a neighborhood bakery might have been selling for generations.

Chicago, IL · 1d
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Rows Of Pinball Machines Fill This Stone Park, Illinois Arcade Where The Games Are Meant To Be Played

Some of the best finds in Illinois hide in buildings you would drive right past without a second look. You pull up to a quiet block, half wondering if you took a wrong turn, and then you hear it: bells, flippers, and the happy clatter of steel balls. Inside waits...

Stone Park, IL · 2d
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Home Run Inn unveils brand new pan pizza

Chicago’s iconic Home Run Inn pizza chain is well-known for its signature tavern-style pizza, but now they’re offering up pan pizzas in the freezers of area grocery stores. According to a press release, the pan pizza will be available at all Chicago-area Jewel stores and Tony’s Fresh Market...

Chicago, IL · 5d
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Chick-fil-A Is Testing 4 New Sandwiches in These 3 Cities — Including a Classic Breakfast Sandwich with a Twist

Chick-fil-A is testing four new waffle sandwiches in Tampa, Fla., Chicago and Raleigh, N.C. starting on Nov. 16

Raleigh, NC · 22h
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9 Illinois Restaurants So Unusual They Deserve Their Own Reality TV Shows

Somewhere in Illinois, your burger can roll up to your seat behind a toy U.S. Army locomotive. It travels on a tiny track, trailed by model cars and a Lego caboose. I still can’t decide if that’s adorable or genius. The train is only one oddball on this...

Chicago, IL · 2d

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Young Artists Take Over Obama Presidential Center for True Chicago Summit

Young artists and content creators are converging on the Obama Presidential Center as the nonprofit True Chicago hosts its 9th Annual Conference, a day built around live performances, panel discussions, and face time with industry leaders. The gathering is taking place at The Forum, the Obama Presidential Center's event space, according to organizers.

Chicago, IL · 2d

WGN News

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Learn to Make Your Own Leather Watchband

Learn to make your very own watchband with some of the best leather in the world. Chicago School of Shoe and Leathermaking Arts’ watchband class gives you the chance to design, stitch and burnish a piece of wearable art. Deborah Janssens joins us with more. 3717 N Ravenswood Ave chicagoschoolofshoemaking.com

Chicago, IL · 19h

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Free turkey giveaway begins at five Chicagoland McDonald's locations

CHICAGO - A holiday food giveaway is bringing support to families at five McDonald’s locations across the Chicago area this week. The Black McDonald’s Operators Association of Chicagoland and Northwest Indiana is holding its 26th annual Food for the Body & Spirit giveaway from Tuesday through Saturday. The...

Chicago, IL · 3h

NBC Chicago

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Fall Out Boy announce Soldier Field show on new ‘Twilight of the Punks' tour

After several days of cryptic teases, Fall Out Boy has officially announced their next world tour will make a stop at Chicago’s Soldier Field. The “Twilight of the Punks” tour will feature the iconic band alongside The Offspring, Good Charlotte and The Story So Far, and it will span the world next year, according to a press release.

Chicago, IL · 20h

E! News

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KATSEYE's Megan Skiendiel Suffers Concussion Amid Tour

Megan Skiendiel is dealing with some gnarly health issues. The KATSEYE member shared that she had suffered a concussion amid the band’s current tour, which prompted the cancellation of their Nov. 5 show in Chicago and their upcoming Nov. 7 performance in Minneapolis just days after canceling their Nov. 3 Detroit concert.

Minneapolis, MN · 3d

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Behind “The Greatest” – The Family That Shaped Muhammad Ali

Chicago has long claimed Muhammad Ali as one of ours, but some people don’t know that he is actually not from the Windy City. Prime Video’s original series The Greatest looks at him as a young Cassius Clay and how he became the larger-than-life figure and icon we celebrate today.

Chicago, IL · 1d

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Why Brothers K outlasted the Starbucks across the street

Brothers K Coffee owner John Kim can set his watch just by looking out from behind the counter of his coffee shop and seeing who’s there. “To the hour, I can predict who’s coming in and when,” Kim said, estimating that between 70% and 80% of his customers are regulars.

Evanston, IL · 3d

ARTnews

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Chicago Crowds Try and Fail to Move Anish Kapoor’s Bean, Art Lawyer Michael Ward Stout Has Died, Louvre President Says Mona Lisa’s Move Will Be Sad, and More

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. Lucien Smith Cause of Death Announced, French Authorities Investigate Unauthorized Reproductions of Picasso Silver Plates and Gold Medallions, and More: Morning Links for November 6, 2026 Good Morning! Hundreds in Chicago tried and failed to push the Bean, Anish Kapoor’s iconic Cloud Gate sculpture, seven inches. Michael Ward Stout, a lawyer who ran Robert Mapplethorpe’s foundation and represented Salvador Dalí, has died at 83. Two oil studies by Peter Paul Rubens, lost for over 80 years, will join three others by the artist to be exhibited at the Ducal Museum in Gotha, Germany. The Headlines WHOSE BEAN CALLING? “Push the Bean!” shouted hundreds of people gathered Sunday in Chicago’s Millennium Park. They were there to answer a call to do just that: push Anish Kapoor ’s iconic sculpture titled Cloud Gate (popularly referred to as the Bean) seven inches to the left of its location, reports CBS News . Legend and good-excuse-for-gathering-in-person has it that a man is stuck inside the bean and to free him, the sculpture could use a little nudge. The event has gone viral, with videos showing a crowd

Chicago, IL · 1d

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Long-Awaited Gibsons Tavern Opens Nov. 17 In Fulton Market

FULTON MARKET — Gibsons Restaurant Group is opening the doors next week to its newest restaurant that’s been years in the making. Gibsons Tavern, first announced in 2023, will open Nov. 17 on the ground floor of an 11-story office building at 925 W. Fulton St., offering “an elevated take on classic American cuisine” inside a vintage-inspired space with vaulted ceilings.

Chicago, IL · 1d

ABC 7 Chicago

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Kobe and Harley looking for forever homes with Cavalier Rescue USA

"Kobe" and "Harley" were left behind by their previous owner at a hotel room. Now, the duo is looking for their forever family.

Chicago, IL · 1d

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Boasting bar-and-grill pride with a local vibe

Nestled inside of Elmwood Park’s de facto downtown district monikered “the circle,” Union Tap has built a solid local reputation as a friendly neighborhood bar serving up savory pub grub and fanciful libations over the past seven years. Ever since opening the doors in November 2019, owner...

Elmwood Park, IL · 18h

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Pick Any Cupcake You Want At This Entirely Gluten-Free Bakery In Chicago, Illinois

Some of the best bakery stops in Illinois hide behind a plain front door you could walk past a hundred times. I went in expecting a polite little snack, the kind you eat and forget. Instead I found a glass case so packed with cupcakes, cake pops, and frosted bars...

Chicago, IL · 1d

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Long Before Brunch Was Trendy, Smoque BBQ Was Already Selling Out Of Brisket In Chicago

Chicago gets plenty of credit for deep dish, hot dogs, and Italian beef. Barbecue usually lands lower on the list, and that is exactly the problem one small Northwest Side kitchen set out to fix back in 2006. Its founders were so serious about the mission that they wrote a...

Chicago, IL · 3d