Eat. Watch. Do. Thursday, August 14, 2025 | | |
| | | | | It’s Thursday, Chicago. Need a rec for your next weekend adventure? If you haven’t ventured up to Lake Forest recently, you may have missed a new cafe and market at the historic Elawa Farm. “It is, in fact, a cozy place for breakfast or lunch with delicious pastries and coffee in an extremely lovely setting,” wrote Tribune critic Louisa Kung Liu Chu in her review this week. We have that story, plus info on a new Floating Museum installation celebrating Bronzeville history, and a preview of Latin Restaurant Weeks returning this weekend. Enjoy
the weekend, we’ll see you back here next week. — Lauryn Azu, deputy editor | | | | The historic former country escape has evolved into a foundation with an ethereal café, elegant market and earnest mission. | | | | | “For Mecca,” a mashup structure that people can walk through, draws on notable original Bronzeville buildings. | | | | | Latin Restaurant Weeks is back for its fifth year in Chicago with chefs, restaurants, eateries and pop-ups hoping to highlight the diverse flavors of the Hispanic culinary scene across the city. | | | | | Gaza in the photos of Palestinian photojournalist and filmmaker Ismail Abu Hatab is more than destruction and despair. | | | | | The first national tour of “Parade” is far superior to the 2023 Broadway revival that spawned it. | | | | | Audiophilic purists and the avidly curious alike can sit and soak in the sounds at a number of bars built for listening. | | | | | The Chicago Humanities Festival announces its fall lineup at a time when many cultural institutions face a bleak future of almost zero public funding. | | | |
