Patty Wetli | For the Sun-Times

For the Sun-Times
Faced with a dearth of green space, residents of the Mayfair neighborhood came up with an interesting solution: turn a vacant lot into a park.
For the fourth time in three years, neighbors in Albany Park and Irving Park are preparing to welcome a new brewery — to the same location.
Preservation Chicago issued an SOS on Thursday for the building at 1217 W. Washington Blvd., designed in 1910 by Daniel Burnham.
Chicago’s highly anticipated first cider house has been more than three years in the making.
A free Urban Livestock Expo on Saturday is designed to help people learn before they leap.
Chicago’s doughnut shops and bakeries brought their A-game to Donut Fest, vying for bragging rights as the city’s best doughnut.
Von Steuben High School’s robotics team is definitely headed to April’s nationals after a flurry of donations assured they could pay for the trip.
David Breo and Ken Carter are opening The Warbler next door to their 5-year-old Lincoln Square eatery Gather.
The unwieldy curve in Lincoln Square that reroutes Lincoln Avenue via Leland onto Western is about to be corrected, or at least made more manageable.