Chicago Magazine
Chicago Magazine is a city-focused lifestyle and culture publication covering Chicago’s people, places, and trends.
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Artificial Connections (opens the original)
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It was the noise —or rather, the lack of it — that first alerted Dana Suskind to the problem. “It used to be that I’d walk into my clinic and there would be a chaotic mess of kids laughing, crying, having meltdowns,” says Suskind, a pediatric otolaryngologist at UChicago Medicine who specializes in hearing loss and cochlear implantation. That commotion has since been replaced with the eerie silence of screen time. Now Suskind is noticing the similar hold that AI has on kids — and that concerns h
A Fight Song for Today’s Bears (opens the original)
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By Edward Robert McClelland | For Chicago Magazine PUBLISHED: July 10, 2026 at 11:35 AM CDT | UPDATED: July 14, 2026 at 5:07 PM CDTGetting your Trinity Audio player ready...Bare Greed, Chicago Bears BARE GREED, CHICAGO BEARS LET EVERY DEAL TURN THE WHEEL TO PROFITABILITY BARE GREED, CHICAGO BEARS PLAY EVERY STATE FOR A TAX RATE FIENDISHLY WE’LL NEVER FORGET THE WAY YOU FOOLED THE NATION BY CONCEALING YOUR NEW LOCATION BARE GREED, CHICAGO BEARS LET GOVERNORS KNOW THAT YOU’RE WEARING THE CROWN YOU
Five Things to Do: July 10-12 (opens the original)
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Haven’t had your fix of markets yet? Good. This Friday and Saturday, Ignite Glass Studio hosts Sauced Night Market, featuring 50 local vendors and a plethora of food and drink. Get there early and leave late. July 10-11. tixtree.com Light up your night at Humboldt Park’s Water Lantern Festival this Saturday and Sunday. Your ticket purchase includes a lantern kit, LED candle, and markers so you can personalize your lantern. July 11-12. waterlanternfestival.com Don’t miss out on Kalapriya’s annual
Funky Bunch (opens the original)
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The to-go bags from Txa Txa Club in Logan Square are stamped with a red diagram of two feet doing a simple cha-cha. But the journey that business and life partners Liz Bendure and Daniel Parker have undergone to take their supper club of the same name to its current iteration as a quirky café has been more of an intricate tango. It started when they met in 2016 at Lula Cafe, where Bendure worked as a server and Parker ran the bar program. “It was my primer to Chicago’s culture, art, and food sce
Mixed Grill (opens the original)
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Stephen Sandoval has seemed poised to make his mark on Chicago dining since becoming executive chef in early 2020 at Leña Brava, the Baja-style seafood restaurant then owned by Rick Bayless. When he pivoted to a series of pop-up dinners called Entre Sueños (“between dreams”), patrons loved the personal seafood dishes that reflected his experiences in Latin America, Spain, and New Orleans. After that, he settled into a yearlong residency at Soho House with Sueños x Soho Friends, where guests marv
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