South Loop
Dog days
Dogs of all breeds had come to the convention center prepared to take their run around the ring at the International Kennel Club of Chicago's 150th Annual Dog Show. »
Gentlemen, start your engines
If anything, the Chicago Auto Show—the largest in the nation—is about an absence of responsibility. It’s about six-digit prices and one-digit fuel economies. The auto show is everything wrong with America, and everything that makes it so awesome. »
Velvet Bounce
Corey Wilkes and the Velvet Lounge All-Stars are standing in front of three tall mirrors in the South Loop Hotel’s L26 Restaurant and Lounge, getting ready to kick off the first show of the Velvet Birdhouse Concert Series. “We’re gonna fly on with some new music,” Wilkes says into the microphone. »
Sunny South Side Up
The Bongo Room, a South Loop extension of the legendary Wicker Park restaurant with the same name, is best described as the illegitimate brain-child of Willy Wonka and IKEA—a cozy yet modern spot where creatively concocted plates of food come readymade. »
Best of the South Side 2010
In the past twenty years, the South Loop has gone from historical to happening. Poor Irish, German, and African-American immigrants first built up the neighborhood in the mid-19th century, but after the neighborhood avoided the brunt of the Great Fire it became a popular district with the Chicago elite. However, their massive mansions gave... »
Night and Day: 24-hour dining on the South Side
This time last year, the Weekly came out with its first guide to 24-hour restaurants on the South Side. In that issue, we covered classics like Izola’s, Depot, and the original Maxwell Street Polish stands. We’re back this year with a few more selections from the South Side nightscape. From the welcoming diners of... »
Out of Africa: Clubbers get a music history lesson at South Loop venue the Shrine
From the late ’50s and on through the ’60s, Chicago’s South Loop neighborhood was a black music mecca. So many blues and soul recording labels set up shop on South Michigan Avenue that the street earned the title of Record Row. Only a few traces of that legacy are still visible among the warehouses... »
Best of the South Side 2009: South Loop
The South Loop is a new neighborhood with a long history. Like many Chicago neighborhoods, it was first populated by poor immigrants in the mid-19th century, mainly Irish, Germans, and African-Americans from the South. Spared by the Great Fire, it became a bastion of the Chicago elite, who built magnificent homes along Prairie Avenue.... »
