November 2021: Best of Chicago

Best of Chicago How do we celebrate a city in the second year of a still-raging pandemic? This was the challenge we contemplated when planning our twenty-ninth Best of Chicago edition. In normal times, we've offered hundreds of recommendations of places to eat, to shop, to experience.  But these are not normal times. Our experience of life over the past year, if we've managed to survive, has been collectively so similar—we've stayed home, we've worn masks, we've gotten sick, we've gotten shots—but our response to that experience has been so different. Some have dropped out of unfulfilling jobs and changed careers, while others have developed a heightened appreciation of the things they cherish, whether friends and family, the natural world or that little mom-and-pop restaurant on the corner that has managed to make it through so far. Not taking life for granted is imprinted on us all, likely for the rest of our lives. It's just so personal. So for this edition of Best of Chicago, we de