Expat in Fulton Market goes from café by day to bar by night
Whether you're craving a mojito in the morning or dinner with a side of bacon, Expat, located at 165 N Ogden Ave., can do both anytime. However, you like it—all judgments aside.
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Whether you're craving a mojito in the morning or dinner with a side of bacon, Expat, located at 165 N Ogden Ave., can do both anytime. However, you like it—all judgments aside.
A new spot in Chicago's Fulton Market aims to take guests around the world with its concept, which changes from a café by day to a bar by night.
Darryl Postelnick, better known by his social media handle — Cooking with Darryl — has nearly 3 million followers on TikTok.
Between the prime cuts of fish and smoking cocktails, you might not even notice that Casa Chi, newly added to the Intercontinental Hotel downtown, doesn't have a kitchen.
Chef Richard Sandoval is at the helm, and Casa Chi is the latest in his 60-plus restaurants worldwide, which have opened in most major cities, including Chicago.
The owners of 7323 Cafe, located at 6600 S. Woodlawn Ave., a big yellow shipping container on the corner is hard to miss, are dedicated to serving healthy meals to a neighborhood that has historically been a food desert.
Marquinn Gibson had seen the concept before while living on the West Coast, where people were using the millions of abandoned shipping containers out in the world.
No matter the season, the team at Pizzeria Portofino, located at 317 N. Clark St., says that it's always summertime.
Lamar Moore is one of a handful of chefs invited to come and rep their local restaurants with a unique menu crafted specially for this year's race.
CBS Chicago’s Jamaica Ponder joins National correspondent Michelle Miller, who presented the awards, as she travels through the city in preparation for the show.
Ben Zeni, who became known as the Chicago Tomato Man, earned the name after selling and giving away tens of thousands of tomato plants.
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Wanting to see more kids like himself make their way into the professional world, Kenneth Griffin returned to Chicago Public Schools, this time as the head of the nonprofit No Matter What.
Since opening in December, they've sold over 500,000 egg-centric breakfasts; packed neatly and quickly into their signature bright yellow boxes.
It's a cheesy potato casserole native to Midwest culture—something you might bring over to a neighbor in a time of need.
For the past four years, Eve Studnicka and Alexis Thomas-Rice have developed multi-course menus nearly every week, turning out anywhere from 30 to 50 servings at a time as a no-contact, delivery-only, virtual restaurant.
"A lot of the customers like the robot because they are really cute," said Stephanie Gong, one of the first restaurateurs to bring robots onto the dining room floor and into the kitchen.
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Stegner is a two-time James Beard Award-winning chef, a restauranteur, a philanthropist, and one of the mothers of the modern Chicago food scene.
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The Evolved Network was started by one therapist-turned-chef on a mission to serve the city.
"We're going to put something really, really fun in this space," chef and co-owner Beverly Kim said of the popular Korean restaurant in Avondale.
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A coalition of banks, credit unions, and card companies argue that Illinois lawmakers must repeal the state's first-in-the-nation Interchange Fee Prohibition Act, slated to take effect July 1.
O'Hare workers drinking on the job and CPD employees scamming the federal government were just some of the jaw-dropping findings in the latest quarterly report from the city's inspector general.
House Democrats introduced articles of impeachment against Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, claiming he has "demonstrated a willful disregard for the Constitution."
The clock is ticking for the Chicago Bears, who are running out of time to decide if they will continue to play in Illinois or cross the border into Indiana.
The City Council on Wednesday failed to override Mayor Brandon Johnson's veto of an ordinance that would have stopped scheduled pay hikes for tipped workers in Chicago.
A passenger on an American Airlines flight from New York to Chicago has been charged with making a false bomb threat that forced an emergency landing at Detroit Metro Airport last month, according to a federal criminal complaint.
Skyrocketing property taxes continue to be a hot-button issue in Cook County — particularly since last fall, when many residents saw their tax bills increase by 100% or more.
Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias this weekend issued a warning about a surge in text messages that falsely claim to come from his office or the DMV within it.
Tenants at a South Loop luxury high-rise that has been plagued with problems like broken elevators are vowing to fight five-day eviction notices.
It's become an annual March Madness tradition at CBS Chicago, pitting our city's best eateries in direct competition in a foodie bracket challenge. We did pizza, we've done Italian beef, we've done Chicago dogs. This year, we're taking flight with wings.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says more than 80% of deaths related to pregnancy are preventable, and Black women are three times more likely to die from pregnancy-related causes than white women.
The United States has long struggled with understanding and finding ways to help treat mental illness. A new documentary, which is screening Saturday in Chicago, examines the reality of living with mental illness in America.
Allergy season is here, and the dreaded pollen can trigger sneezing, congestion, wheezing, and shortness of breath.
Northwestern Medicine and the American Red Cross teamed up for a community blood drive in Chicago on Monday morning.
Ending domestic violence is the goal of groups and advocates all over the world, and some experts in Chicago say it is time to become less reactive and more proactive when it comes to the people causing harm.
A new restaurant has joined the busy stretch of Halsted Street toward the south end of Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood that is also home to Alinea and Boka.
The federal government is suing Illinois, Connecticut and Arizona over efforts to regulate prediction market operators such as Kalshi and Polymarket.
The owners of the popular Uncommon Ground restaurant, live music venue, and brewery in Chicago's Wrigleyville community announced this week that they're looking for a successor to take over the business.
Chicago consistently ranks in the top three cities in Fortune 500 company headquarters, and now a competition has been launched to build on Chicago's power in business.
The flagship Ann Sather restaurant on Belmont Avenue in Chicago's Lakeview community will be moving later this year, a restaurant representative said Tuesday.
Blues icon and world music pioneer Taj Mahal will be headlining the Chicago Blues Festival this June.
The United States has long struggled with understanding and finding ways to help treat mental illness. A new documentary, which is screening Saturday in Chicago, examines the reality of living with mental illness in America.
Afrika Bambaataa, a rapper and producer, was best known for breakthrough tracks like 1982's "Planet Rock" and for founding the Universal Zulu Nation art collective.
Mozart's "Don Giovanni," the local premiere of the 2022 opera "Omar," and a fresh production of "Guys and Dolls" are among the highlights of the 2026-2027 season for Chicago's Lyric Opera.
Federal magistrate Renee Harris Toliver told Pooh Sheisty that the evidence against him is strong.
Diamond Harvey, along with Jamari Stigler, was shot to death while sitting in a car in March 2025. Terrell Fox was arrested in Markham by task force members for the homicides.
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In Des Plaines, the Public Works department is already preparing for rising waters. A barrier is in place on River Road along with a pump.
According to the indictment, Timothy King allegedly embezzled more than $103,000, or $103,833.31 to be exact, to pay for charges made on his personal credit card in 2021 and 2022.
The Illinois Domestic Violence Hotline received a record-breaking number of calls for help from domestic violence victims in 2025, leaving the system struggling to keep up, according to a report from the organization that runs the hotline.
For the second day in a row, potentially severe storms will roll through the Chicago area
A 16-year-old boy died and a 16-year-old girl was hurt in a shooting at a bus stop in Woodlawn near a high school and YMCA.
Heavy rain hit Chicago Tuesday night on top of multiple rain events since March, which is why the river is rising.
In March 2025, Diamond Harvey and Jamari Stigler were shot and killed while sitting inside a car. The suspect was captured three days later.
O'Hare workers drinking on the job and CPD employees scamming the federal government were just some of the jaw-dropping findings in the latest quarterly report from the city's inspector general.
Some parents in southwest suburban Oswego are fired up, saying the school district invited all non-white students to participate in summer remedial programming, regardless of how they're doing in school.
New proposed Illinois legislation would allow renters or people who can't install massive rooftop panels to also harness the power of the sun.
When a rusty light pole snapped and fell on a woman's car in Bucktown, causing thousands of dollars in damage, she thought the city would pay for it. She was wrong.
Financial exploitation is the leading type of elder abuse in Illinois. One Streamwood woman learned that personally, when her brother took hundreds of thousands of dollars from their parents' financial accounts.
One year after a teenage girl was shot outside her home in Country Club Hills, Illinois, and was told she would never walk again, she continued to defy the odds and reclaim her independence.
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Former Oswego East High School standout Noah Schultz is getting ready to step on the mound for the Chicago White Sox on Tuesday night for his Major League debut with his hometown team.
Chicago police on Wednesday issued an expanded community alert about a rash of incidents in which thieves broke into vehicles and stole construction equipment in and around downtown Chicago.
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Less than 24 hours after a crash-and-grab ATM burglary at a BP station in River North, there have been two more such burglaries in Chicago — one on the Northwest Side, the other on the South.
The widow and son of late Cook County Commissioner Dennis Deer were found shot to death on Chicago's West Side on Tuesday in an apparent murder-suicide.
Catalytic converters were stolen from over 30 school buses in Chicago's West Humboldt Park neighborhood.
