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Celebrating 30 years of institution, The International Gay & Lesbian Travel Association (IGLTA) commenced its annual Global Convention with a media reception on the 99th-floor Skydeck of Chicago's Willis Tower, Wednesday
The Gourmet Grape in Boystown closed Tuesday as owners prepare to open a new low-key specialty wine and bourbon bar in mid-May.
Caribou Coffee said last week it would close 80 stores and rebrand 88 more as Peet's Coffee & Tea in Chicago and elsewhere. On Sunday, the Lincoln Park location at 2453 N. Clark closed.
Developers behind the "straight-friendly" boutique hotel, which was recently announced for Boystown, presented their plans to the public for the first time on Thursday evening.
Bucks Saloon, one of the first bars in the Boystown neighborhood, will close this weekend. The popular bar, which is best known for its beer garden, has been purchased by Mark Liberson, owner of Hydrate Nightclub, Halste
The developers behind The Out NYC hope to bring their "straight-friendly" boutique hotel to the Windy City, specifically to the 3300 North block of Halsted Street in Boystown.
A shakeup at Rogers Park gay bar The Glenwood has sent employees and patrons reeling, just days after the closure of one of the owner's other bars.
T's Restaurant and bar, located at 5025 N. Clark in Uptown, has been closed by the Cook County Sheriff's office.
The annual Chicago Headline Club Peter Lisagor Award finalists have been announced. Chicago's LGBT weekly newspaper Windy City Times has been nominated for four of the prestigious honors.
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has defended the decision to back gay marriage in Washington state.
Launched last October, Halsted Vodka is a new concept in spirits, dedicated to championing the LGBT community directly by donating 15% of its profits and company equity to local LGBT organizations.
Lloyd Blankfein, the CEO of Goldman Sachs, has said he believes gay marriage is a business issue and has criticized opponents as biased.
Extending marriage rights to same-sex couples in Illinois would generate up to $103 million in spending to the state and local economy, according to a study released Wednesday by the Williams Institute.
Chicago may have been the ‘hog butcher to the world', but that didn't deter a pair of optimistic vegetarians from opening a ground-breaking meat-free restaurant in 1983. Thirty years and a new second location later, ‘the
Apple, Facebook and Microsoft are among the companies signing on to a legal brief in support of gay marriage.
A new ad for the Amazon Kindle Paperwhite features a married gay couple.
Equality Illinois announced today that its annual Business Leadership Award will be presented to United Airlines for its long history of commitment to the LGBT community.
EBay, Electronic Arts, Thomson Reuters and Marriott International are among the companies calling for the legislative repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA).
Amazon employees have reached out to troubled gay teens in an It Gets Better video.
For the second year in a row, Windy City Times, Chicago's weekly LGBT newspaper, has received a nomination from the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation. The category they are in also has nominations for The New Yor
Cocktail, a once popular gay bar in Chicago's Boystown neighborhood at the southeast corner of Roscoe and Halsted, has received an apparent death blow as the owner and landlord of the building, 3357-59 N. Halsted Street,
A statement posted on Ald. James Cappleman's (46th) website confirmed the sale of the controversial single room occupancy Hotel Chateau, 3838 N. Broadway.
Fifty Illinois businesses and executives publicly came out in support of marriage equality Sunday, citing fairness, economic boost and a need to keep Illinois competitive.
