Story Week Festival of Writers is a free week long annual event downtown Chicago. It's put on by Columbia College of Chicago and several other sponsors. The events include panels, Q&A's, readings, and performances. Authors, editors and agents come into town for events, readings, book signings, discuss the current state of affairs from their view point in the world [...]
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M Burger
M burger is a burger place with a couple locations, one in Watertower which is located at 835 North Michigan Avenue. They have monthly milkshake options, burgers, fries, vegetarian options, and a secret menu. My friends love to go there. I enjoy trying their different milkshakes. Both of the locations I have been in have [...]
Enjoy: An Urban General Store
Enjoy is located at 4723 North Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Square. The shop is full of random and eclectic items. From soaps, teas, backpacks, socks, books and more. It's a fun shop to look around at and a great shop to browse if you need a gift for someone.
The Book Cellar
The Book Cellar is an independent bookstore located at 4736 North Lincoln Avenue in Lincoln Square. The Book Cellar is another one of those bookshops my department talks about a lot. They tend to be the bookstore selling books at author events, especially ones at Storyweek. I went with a friend to just check it [...]
Medieval Times
At work, as a Residential Advisor, we occasionally have Fun Days where we go out and do things. They've given us tickets to the Sky Deck, taken us to Dave and Busters a couple times ( a large arcade, fun for everyone), and given us tickets to the movies, taken us to Santa's Village ( [...]
Bucket o’Blood
Bucket o'Blood is located at 2307 North Milwaukee Avenue near the California Blue Line stop in Logan Square. Bucket o'Blood is an independent genre used Book and Record shop specializing in speculative fiction, horror, fantasy, and science fiction. It's a small shop but a great place to pick up genre fiction or look at records.
Do-rite Donuts
Do-rite donuts is located at 50 West Randolph and opens around 6:30/7am. It's located near the Goodman theater and might be hard to find because it's hiding between restaurants. Look for the giant donut outside. One thing I've noticed about some of the donut shops in Chicago (and most other donut shops, not Glazed and [...]
¡Bang Bang! pie shop
Bang Bang is a pie shop in Logan Square located about three blocks away from the blue California CTA stop at 2051 North California Avenue. They make homemade pies and biscuits. Their pie menu changes based off of season and so it changes frequently. They don't serve their pies until about 10am and the quantity they have [...]
The Gallery Bookstore
The Gallery Bookstore is located in Boystown off the Belmont Red/Brown Line at 923 West Belmont Avenue. This independent bookstore opened in 1927 and buy and sells used books and magazines. They also sell a variety of rare and antique books. They house a wide variety and large selection of genre books and the stacks are [...]
The Meatloaf Bakery
Sounds weird doesn't it? It's actually delicious (well for those who consume meat). The Meatloaf Bakery is located at 2464 North Clark Street near Lincoln Park. This is not a vegetarian or vegan friendly shop. It's a bakery but everything is meat. They make cupcakes and pastries but it's actually all meatloaf of some form [...]