The best of 2016

A White Sox world record that went to the dogs and Donald Trump’s honorary 3-inch wiener are just a couple of Chicago’s weirdest news stories this...

Our top picks from Chicago stages this year.

Chicago's best new bars of 2016 gave us fantastic breweries, a cider bar and all-day cocktail hangs

The 14 best new restaurants of 2016 include fine dining newcomers, great brunch spots and veggie-centric eats

Another banner year for music in Chicago offered up great hip-hop, rock, jazz and metal albums

From breakfast to booze, these are the best dishes and drinks we had this year at Chicago restaurants and bars

An annoying hashtag, plenty of pop culture references and a fake apology all made our list of this year's most overused words or phrases

We eavesdropped throughout the year and compiled the best out-of-context quotes of 2016  

Hot dogs, fried chicken, garnished cocktails and more of the best food and drink photos from 2016  

A year of stellar performances and oceans of tears (onscreen and off), 2016 may have sucked, but its movies didn’t