Eat. Watch. Do. Thursday, May 28, 2026 | | |
| | | | | It’s Thursday, Chicago. We are thrilled to unveil this year’s Chicago Tribune Critic's Choice Food Award winners. For food critic Louisa Kung Liu Chu, selecting this year’s 10 restaurants “all came down to lingering and lasting memories.” Read about the winning restaurants here, and check out our updated map of all Food Award winners since 2011 here. More coverage this week includes a new Pokémon-themed fossil exhibit at the Field Museum perfect for the entire family, and our picks for art, jazz music, farmers markets and concerts this summer. Enjoy the weekend, we’ll see you back here next week. — Lauryn Azu, deputy senior editor | | | | For our Critic’s Choice Awards this year, we’re awarding places as a collective of their people who have inspired us with their extraordinary culinary achievement through dedicated ethical work. | | | | | Ten concerts that don’t demand as much from your bank account, but should still be on your radar. | | | | | The weather is warming and that means its farmers market season. Check our schedule to help plan your shopping trips. | | | | | This unusual dark comedy is now in its world premiere by A Red Orchid at the Chopin Theatre. | | | | | State Rep. Rick Ryan, D-Evergreen Park, who held a press conference last week to mark the bill that waits for a Senate vote, said his team dug through records and found that Illinois never had a state sandwich before. | | | | | From America250 to Miles Davis, not to mention the echoes of Jazz Day and full summer at Ravinia, our critic’s picks for the coming season. | | | | | Pokémon fossils and real fossils are displayed side-by-side in a new exhibit at the Field Museum. | | | |
