Plus: At Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum in Evanston, new exhibits are only the beginning • Top 20 for Halloween: Haunted houses, horrifying puppets and the parade
Working Lunch Friday, October 9, 2026 | | |
| | | | | Our picks for events in and around Chicago this weekend. | | | | | Among its many major changes, the museum has narrowed its focused to the Great Lakes region rather than all of the U.S. and Canada. | | | | | From now until All Hallows’ Eve and beyond, our annual haunted house guide, plus 10 other attractions for your spooky season. | | | | | Months after former President Barack Obama’s museum’s opening this summer, employees at the museum foundation announced Wednesday they are unionizing. | | | | | Conde Nast Traveler received nearly 800,000 votes for this year’s Readers’ Choice Awards, which cover everything from hotels and cruise lines to spas and airports. | | | | | There’s no more satisfying way to spend a crisp fall day than planting bulbs for spring bloom. | | | | | Three Sisters Antique Mall in Blue Island celebrated 30 years as a space for antique and vintage lovers in former Woolworth. | | | | | Canadian poet and essayist Anne Carson won the Nobel Prize in literature Thursday “for her bold and inventive oeuvre that, in playful dialogue with the classical tradition, has created new forms for contemporary literature.” | | | |