This Lenten season there are plenty of bars and restaurants offering traditional platters of battered pike or cod served with fries and coleslaw as well as other specials.

After the pandemic shut everything down, the vibrancy on Chicago Avenue is back as more places including Brasero, Omakase Shoji and Michelin-starred Feld have opened.

Bartender and author Nick Kokonas has transformed a former neighborhood Polish dive bar into a historical cocktail bar in Chicago.