
Traveling musicians, make sure Chicago is on your next tour. The Windy City, once hailed as the humble whipping boy of New York City, San Francisco and L.A., is busting-gloriously-out of its cultured little britches. Chicago is schoolin’ the coasts in all things gastro and sonic. Take, for instance, when Graham Elliot Bowles served as the first “culinary director” at this year's sprawling Lollapalooza festival. As if the coasts don’t suffer enough from Grant Aschatz envy (the chef-wundergenius behind Chi town’s Alinea, and widely considered the best chef in the country), covetous indie beat/grub [...]