Jan Parr

Area chefs and restaurants are well represented among finalists for the James Beard Awards, which were announced today. Boka snagged three.

With the acquisition, Round Barn’s parent company will more than double its annual wine production and add 25 acres of existing vineyards.

A rapidly expanding chain of restaurants selling shakes, juices, coffee, tea and sandwiches has signed three leases downtown.

The steakhouse, which for most of its 11-year run was associated with David Burke, and which introduced salt-aging to the city, is to shut Dec. 9.

The steakhouse fixture, under new ownership, is adding a Victorian garden, a “speakeasy”-like lounge and late-night bar menu.

Can Cooper’s Hawk continue on its fast growth clip by offering something for most?

A first look at the new hotel and its restaurant—pun alert—About Last Knife. They’re in a restored Benjamin Marshall building that was in disrepair for decades.

Wanted by the FBI for alleged misappropriation of funds and charged with wire fraud, Attila Gyulai once owned one of Chicago’s hottest restaurants. He was arrested in Valencia, a newspaper there reports.

This year’s showhouse is a 23-room, 11,000-square-foot turn-of-the-century estate transformed by some 30 interior and landscape designers.

Remarkable people doing remarkable things while still in their 30s—or 20s. That’s what our 40 Under 40 feature, now in its 32nd year, is all about.