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Hello, Chicago!

Homecoming Queen • Awesome read [“Candace Parker Comes Home,” June/July]. She talked about things that happened throughout her career that I’ve always wanted to know more about. And she looks bomb!

Your Best Patio Photos

Talking Points • This month’s essential cocktail party fodder

Tactical Switch • How Chicago’s lawsuit against an Indiana firearms shop could affect the future of gun control

All-American Teens • Writer Elly Fishman gets us to reconsider the refugee narrative after a year embedded at Sullivan High School.

Postpandemic-Palooza • The Goliath of local music festivals pledges a COVID-free crowd. Headliners include No Masks, Full Capacity, and Calculated Risk. Sound fun, stressful, or both?

Stars’ Homes, Judged • An Edgebrook couple who spent the pandemic assessing residences on Facebook with their HGTV-like Gays Judge the Neighborhood take on the rich and famous for us.

Good to Grow • A plant shop that started on a quiet cul-de-sac is now a destination storefront.

Potions of Youth • A new line of beauty products by Chicago-based doctor to the stars Julius Few may trick Father Time into thinking you’re 21 again.

Ask a Budtender • Featuring Datrianna Meeks

Brian Jupiter • Chef, muay thai fiend, water guzzler

Consequence of Sound • Can an energy healing session steel me for reentry into the postpandemic world?

Hot Dogs, Unleashed • At Bronzeville’s Hot Dog Box, a father-daughter duo serves up some of the wildest franks in town.

Oat, Yeah!

Summer of Swizzles • The icy drinks, usually rum based, are all over menus. Chill out with these five.

Hot Pot of Gold

The Hot List • 10 places everyone’s talking about (in order of heat)

The Sales Don’t Stop • A red-hot housing market has fueled a numbers surge for the real estate agents on our annual rankings of top sellers.

Top Real Estate Agents • Rankings based on 2020 residential sales in the six-county metro area

Top Real Estate Teams • Rankings based on 2020 residential sales in the six-county metro area

Fish at Your Own Risk • Two decades ago, the mother of all angling competitions came to Chicago. Things couldn’t have gone much worse.

BEST OF the new CHICAGO • The 58 people, places, foods, and finds that emerged from the darkness of the pandemic to make our reopened city even better than before

Para.Mar Dance Theatre

Wisecrackin’

Situation Chicago

THE FIVE BEST NEW SANDWICHES

ENCHANTED GARDEN TREEHOUSE AIRBNB

QR menus

Music Box Theatre

SoulCycle Outside

Capucine

El Che Meat & Provisions and Daisies Market

Tipsy Tea

DRIVE-IN MOVIE THEATERS

Kelly Bauer, breaking news editor at Block Club Chicago

Wine Gang

The Quarantine Times

Bokuchan’s Japanese Curry House

ROGER J. CARTER

Pendry Chicago

To-go cocktails

Community Kitchen and the Love Fridge

Boxcar BBQ

Wheelys Coffee Lounge

HAMANTASCHEN AT JEFF & JUDES

VARGO BROTHER FERMENTS

Timed reservations

Quesabirria at Milkstop

THE 10 BEST NEW PIZZAS

JEREMY E. JOYCE

The Green Flamingo

The RealReal

Online writing classes from the Newberry Library

Quarantini Vintage

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